How to Use all-American in a Sentence

all-American

adjective

• At 150, Laird Root is an all-American ranked No. 8 in the country.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
• The all-American wildness pays off — the apple is a success.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• There was one guy who was a Picker in a later season who was very beefy and all-American.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• Hart had been named the most outstanding player of the Big East tournament during his sophomore year, and was a third-team all-American his junior year.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The classic raised yeast donuts are lightly fried to a soft, golden hue that embodies the quintessential all-American donut.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2023
• Andretti is making a bid for adding an all-American team to the grid in 2026, partnering with Cadillac on a bid that has yet to receive final approval.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• The movie is an ode to a certain brand of all-American tough guys, but mostly attracted praise, including yours, for its female star, Jodie Comer.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• As these vintage Bon Appétit recipes show, the all-American ham has been worthy of our devotion for decades, and if the tradition ain’t broke, there’s really no reason to change it.
  — Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2024
• Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Eventually, though, the chain’s all-American, homestyle fare, often served in family-size portions, fell out of step with tastes.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• Jason Sudeikis made a career out of playing a specific sort of Midwestern bro: overconfident, all-American, and a bit of a… jerk.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 31 May 2023
• Willy Chavarria borrowed its plaids and houndstooths and juxtaposed them against nods to Western and Chicano all-American fashion.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• Calvin Klein has always trafficked in high and low — in classic all-American athleticism, shot through with an untethered primal lust.
  — Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• The concession menu boasts the all-American favorites, including double cheeseburgers, onion rings and snow cones.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• Jimmy Buffett, the all-American musician turned mogul who spun his beach bum folk-rock hits into a prolific business empire, has died at 76.
  — Ellie Harmsworth Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2023
• Green was an all-American at Michigan State University in his junior and senior seasons.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Biden gets to promote green tech while also propping up an all-American, job-creating industry.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• Of course, being all-American comes with a (literally) steep price.
  — Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Smoked tomatoes give all-American tomato soup a twist of Ozark flavor.
  — Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 8 Jan. 2026
• So, Nielsen makes sure the wardrobe reflects that all-American feel by shopping at stores that exude the right vibe.
  — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025