How to Use Filipino in a Sentence

Filipino

noun
  • In the melee, a Filipino sailor’s thumb got sliced off by a sharp piece of metal.
    — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 2024-09-18
  • Those spots range from Italian and Filipino to soul food and seafood.
    — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Travel + Leisure, 2023-11-02
  • This mom-and-pop shop grills pork and chicken Filipino barbecue on skewers.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Read on to learn more about her warm-hearted Filipino restaurant in Mount Pleasant.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2023-10-02
  • In one of the videos, a warship bearing the number 164 comes very close to the Filipino ship’s port side.
    — Peter Guo, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Lechon at Oko People have been saying Filipino is the next big cuisine for more than a decade.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 2025-07-30
  • The next largest groups of Asian people who responded were Chinese and Filipino.
    — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 2024-09-25
  • There are Bangladeshi pizzas in Detroit and Filipino ones in Chicago.
    — Luke Fortney, Bon Appétit, 2025-02-20
  • Towa Bird, who is Filipino and British, has experienced some of what Kehrer describes.
    — Abigail Covington, Rolling Stone, 2024-11-24
  • That means the only way for Filipino Swifties to see Tay in person is to travel to another country.
    — Vulture, 2023-09-01
  • As a 17-year-old Filipino American, I’m expected to be an adult.
    — Jasmine Sessoms, The Mercury News, 2024-10-01
  • Umu-Cais’ ink is a combination of Filipino and Samoan tribal tattoos that make up an entire sleeve.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Nance, whose mother is Filipino and father Black and Arab, was among the top three contestants of the season that wrapped up last week.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 2024-04-04
  • Last year the 37-year-old staged a Filipino holiday market across the street from HiFi to draw crowds to the neighborhood.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 2024-04-13
  • In the middle stretch of the event, ena mori, an artist with Filipino and Japanese roots, was joined by keyboardist Tim and drummer Cairo in club asia.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2023-11-17
  • Nearly half of those Asian Americans are Filipino, and many of them voted for the first time in the 2020 election.
    — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2024-10-30
  • At the Public, Ramos, a Tony-winning costume designer, was the only key creative on the team who was a Filipino.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2023-07-25
  • Most families on board are Indian, Chinese, Filipino.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Along the refrigerated sides of the produce section are loose and packaged items like fresh greens and herbs, hot peppers, oyster mushrooms, Filipino eggplants and more.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Campeau designed the slums of the Filipino port to be claustrophobic, with architecture designed to impose, entrap, and possess.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Chef Emil David will open a new Filipino restaurant, Maynila, in the former Come Back Inn space in Louisville.
    — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Manila grounded the navy transport ship on Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 and has manned it with Filipino marines to enforce its claims to the area.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 2023-10-22
  • Clashes have involved boat collisions, water cannons and injuries to Filipino sailors, according to Filipino officials.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Most of the passengers were Indian, Chinese or Filipino, according to O'Callaghan.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • As for why so many of them were Filipino—well, what was there to say that hadn’t been said in 1765; in 1899; in 1946; in 1965?
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Panadera Developed by the founders of Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream, Filipino bakery Panadera opened a sparkling new branch in Soho just a few months ago.
    — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Co-owner Jay Tugas says the recent increase in immigration enforcement has been another devastating dent in the Filipino restaurant’s business.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
  • However, officials believe most of the individuals on the bus were Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Filipino.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Eala, the 20-year-old from the Philippines who has been making tennis history for her country all year, became the first Filipino to win a main-draw match at a Grand Slam in the Open Era, which goes back more than 50 years.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In Moderation, Elaine Castillo’s sardonic new novel, Girlie Delmundo, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, works as a content moderator at a major tech company.
    — Sarah Rose Etter, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025

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