How to Use Somali in a Sentence

Somali

noun

• Any Somali—or any American—who commits fraud should face the law.
  — Abdi Nor Iftin, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
• Not a home-run like last year’s Somali Street Fries, but I’d split this with a group of friends for sure.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2026
• Artan would have been the first Somali to referee at a World Cup.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2026
• The video states the source of the confrontation came when the filmer's family, who is Somali, came to view a home in the neighborhood.
  — Adam Duxter, CBS News, 27 June 2026
• Dunbar, who lives nearby, had brought Somali chicken sambusas for fellow mourners standing in the cold.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• These words are discussed in American living rooms, and in refugee camps and cities across the Somali diaspora.
  — Abdi Nor Iftin, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
• Abti — Somali for uncle — was taken by ICE, her little sister texted.
  — Julia Coin updated July 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
• Those who break the oath are not representatives of Somali Americans.
  — Abdi Nor Iftin, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
• Formed during the first year of the Peace Corps‘ existence, the group known as Somali 1 has reconvened every five years.
  — Ethan Gologor, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026
• Members of the Somali community have been charged as a result of the investigations.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• Many of the defendants in that case were Somali Americans, according to local news reports.
  — Jody Godoy, USA Today, 13 May 2026
• In addition to jail time, the court barred Somali from employment at institutions related to children and adolescents for five years.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• Ninety-two people were charged in that case, including 82 Somali Americans.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
• The union set aside the entire day for voting, with translators for Spanish, Haitian Creole, Burmese and Somali.
  — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
• The Somali referee who was denied entry to the United States for the World Cup will still be paid his full tournament fee.
  — CBS News, 14 June 2026
• Somali Americans still believe in what the American flag stands for and what the Constitution promises.
  — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• To get as much data as possible, the survey can be completed in English, Spanish, Hmong, or Somali.
  — Adam Del Rosso, CBS News, 20 June 2026
• Mohamed Dahir | Afp | Getty Images Somali pirates are back in business.
  — Aparajita Saxena, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
• Fraudsters, many from the state’s Somali community, are suspected of transporting cash to terrorist networks abroad.
  — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
• The scheme involved some members of Minnesota’s Somali community.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026
• Hmong and Somali Minnesotans play an increasingly prominent role in Twin Cities politics.
  — Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
• The treatment of Somali referee Omar Artan has horrified many of his fellow officials, who have nothing but sympathy for a man whom few have met or seen in action.
  — Graham Scott, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• The council resolution calls on Xcel Energy to add bill payment assistance in Hmong, Karen and Somali.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
• Before that crackdown, the government had brought fraud charges against dozens of people, many of them Somali Americans, who were accused of fleecing a federal program that was meant to provide food to children.
  — Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• The renowned Somali French art dealer opened her Chicago outpost before expanding to Paris and Mexico City.
  — Rima Suqi, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
• Fartun Weli is a proud, first-generation Somali American who's been in Minnesota for 26 years.
  — Tony Peterson, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
• Then, the Somali Civil War drove in a large community starting in the ‘90s, creating what is now the diaspora’s largest in the country.
  — David Farley, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026