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
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024