How to Use American in a Sentence

American

adjective

• Oh was the first, in 2019), and the first Asian American man to do so.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• He was stretched out on the couch, which was draped in a large blanket patterned like the American flag.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• No one appears to keep track of how many such sleights of hand are cropping up in American homes.
  — Jane Margolies, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
• That's going to mean that the APR on every American credit card is about to go up.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The North American leg will be launching on Dec. 13 in Brooklyn.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• The arc of American voting history has been with stops and starts.
  — Sam Jacobs, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• Late last year, the 19-year-old star canceled her North American tour to focus on her mental health.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
• Just put this South American native in a warmer room with indirect light and let its lush, droopy fronds bring a touch of the tropics to your home.
  — Molly Miller, housebeautiful.com, 31 May 2023
• And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
• An American investor called to the siren song of Italy who didn’t end up shipwrecked in the stormy waters of its bureaucracy.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
• Some American tourists are also trapped in the Holy Land, desperate to return home.
  — Taylor Penley, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
• This 95 percent polyester, 5 percent spandex maxi is the next best thing to wearing the American flag itself.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 11 June 2023
• Until this point, the film has shown how American culture has been shaping modern Bhutan, but in this moment, it’s made clear what the country can teach the rest of the world.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
• Those shows brought the first North American leg of the Guts world tour to a close as the singer and songwriter gets ready to head over to Europe for nearly two full months of performances.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
• Young Israelis and American Jews came in droves over the past 15 years, fascinated by the city’s laissez-faire vibe, buzzing nightlife and low cost of living.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 23 June 2023
• Polls are a snapshot in time and America — the American people — are whole people.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• What’s still keeping American workers out of the office?
  — Julia Carpenter, WSJ, 31 May 2023
• And their connection to family and their culture is closer to mine than the American way.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Good American founder, 39, who only recently revealed her toddler's name, posed with Tatum on her hip in the first picture.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• The American public wants a House speaker who will work across the aisle and try to cut spending, but who won't try to either shut down the government or impeach Joe Biden.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• To top it all off, a nother American obsession — tequila — is starting to cause problems too.
  — Mark Stevenson, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
• The film is very funny and makes great use of flights of fantasy, something that comes out of the Latin American literary tradition.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• That's not the history of Black folks, that's American history.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• Or maybe also like an American ideal of pulling up yourself by your bootstraps.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, Beijing makes no pretense of its support for all these and many more challenges to American dominance.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• This is not the American health care system’s first crippling cyberattack, of course.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
• Food More than 50 million American kids have a food allergy.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• But the other thing that is especially American about Love Has Won is the way that the lack of our social safety net creates the desire to look for ways online to heal your mind and body for free.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024