How to Use Haitian Creole in a Sentence

Haitian Creole

noun
  • In front of him were dozens of angry men and a few women, yelling in Haitian Creole.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The group sang in Haitian Creole to drumbeats; some of them moved with trance-like gestures.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Spanish is widely spoken, as is Haitian Creole.
    — David Ovalle, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In the course of the eighteenth century, a new language, today known as Haitian Creole, or Kreyòl, emerged.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022
  • This is the Miami of Haitian Creole spoken with loving reverence.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Across the region, locals also speak Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and English.
    — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 23 May 2022
  • In Haitian Creole, the women of her family grace her with compliments on her real beauty or liken her smooth, brown complexion to a type of tree with a rich brown trunk.
    — Kaitlyn McNab, Allure, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In 2023, the Book Club began including a special mailing in Haitian Creole.
    — Danielle Barreras, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024
  • The union set aside the entire day for voting, with translators for Spanish, Haitian Creole, Burmese and Somali.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Rocking Horse hired patient navigators fluent in Haitian Creole, one of the two official languages of Haiti.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Even though Haitians are one of the nationalities recently included in expulsions, the app is not available in Haitian Creole.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • One of the stipulations is that at least 10% of personnel at the facility will have to be fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
    — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The 7,400-student district employs five bilingual assistants who speak Haitian Creole and six who speak Spanish.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Driving tests must be provided in Spanish and Haitian Creole, so that all community members can understand and participate in the testing process.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The school district and local clinic have hired Haitian Creole translators, increasing expenditures on translation services.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The state has already deleted Spanish and Haitian Creole versions of the Florida Driver’s Handbook from its website.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
  • They were seen as a weird gumbo of alternative hip-hop that featured rhymes in Haitian Creole and live instrumentation on songs that relied on Hill’s melodies and Jean’s showmanship.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Exams for most non-commercial driver classifications had been offered in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
    — News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • The county launched a program last year to translate and distribute emergency communications in Spanish, Haitian Creole and other languages.
    — Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The Haitian Creole-English interpreter helps people bridge language barriers over the phone during people's hospital visits, court proceedings and the like.
    — Huo Jingnan, NPR, 3 May 2026
  • Speaking Haitian Creole with English subtitles, Dorsainvil also discussed her captors, who haven’t been identified publicly.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Available in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, these workshops cover relevant topics on raising successful, healthy and happy children and youth.
    — Juliette Fabien, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Others have pointed out that Kenyan forces will be linguistically disadvantaged leading a mission in a country where French and Haitian Creole are the official languages.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In the four or five different constantly playing tracks, visitors heard voices in Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole telling their stories of migration and talking about the meaning of the word home.
    — Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • An online American Red Cross water-safety course is offered in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, per the initiative.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The transition to school initially presented a new challenge for the children, who were entering a predominantly white school district with no Haitian Creole-speaking staff — until the school hired Rocher as their tutor.
    — Daniela Pierre-Bravo, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The two men created operational and logistical plans and learned to speak the Haitian Creole language, court documents allege, as well as recruited others to join their invasion and enrolled in schools to learn the skills needed for their invasion plan.
    — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • This essential community resource offers free workshops on different parenting topics throughout the county in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
    — Grettel Suarez, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The organization published know-your-rights guides in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Tagalog and Vietnamese.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 14 Nov. 2025

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