half-English

Example Sentences

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They saw some clips of me online and realised I was half-English.

From BBC

Grandma must have told me about a million unsolicited half-English, half-Fante stories about everything from our family to mythology.

From Literature

Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.

From Washington Post

Fariba is 41, and half-Iranian, half-English.

From BBC

Las Cafeteras, a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, recorded a half-English, half-Spanish version of Ray Charles’s “Georgia On My Mind” — a rendition intended to reflect the rising tide of Black and Latino voters in the state.

From New York Times