How to Use ethnic in a Sentence

ethnic

adjective

• The U.S. has a wide variety of ethnic groups made up of immigrants or their descendants.
• The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state.
  — Ramzy Mardini and Morgan L. Kaplan, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• There are people of all ethnic backgrounds in Spain, of course, and many of them are White.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• So rather than a bass drum or a kick drum, there were the more ethnic drums: doumbeks and riqs and things like that.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• There are more than 80 ethnic groups, and as many languages.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Mar. 2021
• The increase occurred across all racial and ethnic groups.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2018
• The new college is open to students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2024
• Case rates have been rising across racial and ethnic groups.
  — Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023
• Broad agreement that a lot needs to be done to ensure equal rights across racial and ethnic lines.
  — Jennifer Agiesta, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• The declines were spread across racial and ethnic groups and among high- and lower-achievers alike.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• All but one racial or ethnic group has now surpassed the 80% threshold.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2022
• The thing is, there were not a lot of ethnic heroes on television back then.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• The decline in cancer death rates held true for both men and women of all racial and ethnic groups.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 8 July 2021
• There will be a wide array of ethnic food for purchase.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
• There also will be music, dance and lots of ethnic food.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
• The researchers didn’t hear ethnic slurs or overt insults.
  — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
• Look for mango nectar in the juice aisle or ethnic aisle of most grocery stores.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
• In every racial and ethnic group there are trashy people.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• Almost a quarter of Texas home sales in the last year were to ethnic minorities.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2020
• There are over 50 ethnic groups from over 40 countries.
  — Shirley Ju, Variety, 29 May 2022
• With more than 80 ethnic groups, the country has always been a melting pot.
  — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• In the late-stage trial, the vaccine was effective across racial and ethnic groups, as well as ages.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2020
• Is this worse than the ethnic, racial, and other divisions that Schlesinger takes up?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
• His parents host parties with just the right touch of ethnic flavor.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• Suu Kyi has previously called on all armed ethnic groups to sign the cease-fire.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2018
• The raids have taken place amid tensions between some of the region’s ethnic groups.
  — Simon Marks, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• Soul, rock, jazz, poetry and a multi-ethnic vibe all flow out of her.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 July 2019
• It was supposed to be a defining moment for the world's largest stateless ethnic group.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The changes and the debate around them illustrate the complexity of racial and ethnic identity.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
• Many schools declined to release the racial and ethnic makeup of their pool of admits (either indefinitely or until the official end of the admissions cycle), following the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action.
  — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024