How to Use non-American in a Sentence

non-American

adjective
  • But more than 70 percent of the films at the festival are actually non-American films.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
  • In theory, this means the Academy is more open than it’s ever been to non-American filmmakers.
    Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Xouples have a short 90-day time window (hence the show’s title) in which they must get married — or their non-American citizen partner will have to exit the country.
    Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Moscow’s forces have placed weapons right across the border from northeastern Ukraine, and aimed them at Kharkiv — knowing the Ukrainians would only be able to use non-American drones and other weaponry to target them in response.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • These tablets are getting more popular in non-American markets where one two to companies don’t have a virtual monopoly on the e-reader space.
    Alex Cranz, The Verge, 29 July 2023
  • On Earth, air pushes on your skin from every direction with a consistent pressure of about 14 pounds per square inch, or using ridiculous non-American units, 1 atmosphere.
    Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In each instance, however, egregiously faulty judgment squandered—there is no other word—vast troves of American wealth and thousands of American lives (not to mention hundreds of thousands of non-American lives).
    Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And even chip manufacturing in the United States will depend on working with the most technologically capable companies, many of them non-American.
    Larry Diamond, Jim Ellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
  • But for non-American films there is the best international feature film category, which is an extremely prestigious reward.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Qualifying restaurants are locally owned, non-American, located in Fairfield and have fewer than five locations, Kaelin said.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2024
  • For years, studies showed that these systems struggled to understand certain accents—especially non-American, non-European ones.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Americans working in such countries for non-American employers or those who are not self-employed might find themselves without any social security obligations.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Plenty of Black Americans also have non-American ethnic identities.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Being a non-American rapper, 21 rightfully didn’t face professional blowback for his heritage (save for a few idiots on Twitter) and his credibility as a master of menace remains intact.
    Grant Rindner, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024

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