How to Use Haitian in a Sentence

Haitian

noun
  • Cut off from the world, more and more Haitians are now going hungry, aid workers are warning.
    — Michael Rios, CNN, 2024-04-12
  • Still, the Trump campaign has doubled down on the unfounded claims about Haitian.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 2024-09-26
  • Just last week, the Coast Guard repatriated 65 Haitians to their home country.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 2024-03-19
  • In a nation of twelve million people, there have been at least a dozen massacres by gangs fighting over turf, killing more than a thousand Haitians last year alone.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2023-07-17
  • And Haitian Rara-style music will be heavy on bamboo horns played by, in this case, animatronic bobcats and bears.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 2024-05-06
  • The Haitian is now tied with fellow striker Evan Conway as the team’s leading scorer with 10 goals.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-10-06
  • Robert Taylor had the assist with a cross inside the box for the Haitian forward, who placed it past Pedro Gallese to tie the score.
    — Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 2025-02-15
  • In addition, 2 million Haitians are facing severe hunger, according to the report.
    — Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 2024-09-30
  • Nearby, hundreds of mostly African, Haitian, and South American migrants live in tent camps.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-11-01
  • Throughout the ride and the queue, Disneyland park goers will hear everything from Zydeco to Haitian Tara.
    — Megan Dubois, Forbes, 2024-11-22
  • And while the specter of Mach’s Haitian ancestry is never far from reach, Pray for Haiti also plays like his witty facsimile of a rap star.
    — Pitchfork, 2024-10-01
  • Lawmakers are in the process of repealing that provision in response to an injunction from a federal judge, after a group of Haitian immigrants sued.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-02-28
  • The Haitian Revolution has been described by scholars as the realization of white slave owners’ worst nightmare: Black rule.
    — Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made By History, TIME, 2024-10-04
  • The rich, luminous scent is complimented by bergamot, orange, Haitian Amyris oil, leather accord, and musk to create a cologne he'll be totally taken with.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 2025-01-29
  • The Eucalyptus and Haitian Vetiver ingredients deliver a clean and fresh scent ideal for any vibe.
    — Valerie Butler, Essence, 2024-04-19
  • The top nationalities of those who were processed with an appointment made through the app were Venezuelan, Cuban, Mexican and Haitian.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 2024-10-23
  • This area should have regular feasts and festivals e.g. Haitian, Dominican, like the North End, that reflects the diversity of the city.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 2025-04-06
  • This was during the years of the Haitian Revolution, which made the future of slavery on sugar plantations in the Caribbean look uncertain.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Flights were canceled and border towns usually teeming with vendors and Haitians crossing daily to work in the Dominican Republic were subdued.
    — MartÍn Adames AlcÁntara and DÁnica Coto The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2023-09-16
  • However, one person can have more than one encounter, and the figure does not include Haitians who arrived on Florida's and Puerto Rico's shores.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes The Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 2024-03-28
  • After years of backing corrupt and undemocratic leaders, the U.S. government has a chance to back Haitians promoting democracy and the rule of law.
    — Pierre Esperance, Foreign Affairs, 2024-04-02
  • Despite the fact that both Haiti rulers were veterans of the Haitian Revolution, the French had never quite given up on reconquering their former colony.
    — Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 2025-04-16
  • The company was named after Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2025-07-01
  • That question sparks an intimate, urgent exploration by this Haitian/American composer, singer, musician and activist into her own identity.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 2024-06-03
  • About two hours before the shooting, a member of the Haitian Loc gang stabbed Martial C. in the leg during a fight, and his older brother started making phone calls and planning retaliation.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 2025-03-24
  • To accuse [Haitians] in some way of being violent people is completely unrealistic, and also so, so terribly unfair for a country that is going through the crisis that Haiti is living right now.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-06-05
  • That pride filters down even into celebrating Haitian Heritage Month with author readings, cultural performances and flag-raising ceremonies.
    — Fredlyn Pierre Louis, NBC News, 2024-04-30
  • Immerse yourself in cultural food, music and vendors, games and activities at the annual Carolina Haitian Food Festival.
    — Alexis Clinton, Axios, 2024-09-19
  • With two locations in North Miami, 1804 Haitian Pizza combines Haitian griot and oxtail with pizza in a popular way.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • As Haitians are thrust into the national conversation surrounding U.S. immigration, uncertainty looms for thousands of people.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 2025-02-21

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