How to Use Spanglish in a Sentence

Spanglish

noun
  • Leaning into his bilingual upbringing, Apollo also processed the grief of his breakup in Spanglish.
    Lucas Villa, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-09
  • The aim was to create a realistic flow to the bilingual dialogue, not the token Spanglish heard in some movies and TV shows.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 2021-12-10
  • My mother tongue is not my dad’s, and my grandma and I communicate on the shaky ground of Spanglish, neither of us having ever arrived at the comfort of fluency.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 2023-12-14
  • Most of her lyrics are in Spanglish and include sounds derived from instruments from the Middle East, including the darbouka, a percussion instrument of Arabic origin.
    Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 2024-03-24

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