How to Use Zulu in a Sentence

Zulu

noun
  • Partly wild, the stripy, feisty mommy-cat stayed and was named Ingwe, which means ‘leopard’ in Zulu.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 2023-04-02
  • The series tells the story of the titular Zulu king, who will be played by Charles Babalola.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2023-04-03
  • Long before fences or maps defined it, these rolling valleys were the royal hunting grounds of King Shaka Zulu.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, Phoenix released their seventh studio album Alpha Zulu.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2023-06-21
  • In this very fine high-school series, set in a Black township, characters swing from Zulu to English and other tongues with ease.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-15
  • The airport has already started extending Taxiway Z, called the Zulu runway, near the project.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-08-31
  • Ten years ago at Camp Pendleton, four Marines were killed while performing maintenance on a live-fire training range in the Zulu impact area.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-08-19
  • For choir member Sandile Majola, who helped painstakingly translate the song into Zulu, the project carried deep meaning.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Phoenix released the album Alpha Zulu last year, while Beck last premiered a full-length with Hyperspace in 2019.
    — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 2023-07-28
  • Shaped by the legacies of legal giants who treated the courtroom as a tool for transformation, Attorney Zulu Ali channels that same energy into his own practice.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The Smithsonian received more than 1,000 sets of remains from the exposition, including two brains of Zulu people.
    — Andrew Ba Tran, Washington Post, 2023-08-15
  • The veteran South African politician, Zulu prince and controversial figure during the apartheid liberation struggle, died last week aged 95.
    — Reuters, CNN, 2023-09-16
  • Michael Jenkins painted his face and wore his black-and-gold feathered Mardi Gras costume to march in the parade as part of the city’s famous Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
    — Jack Brook, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Marea sings in English and Zulu; his music melds styles (funk, Afrobeat, electro, experimental pop) and traverses topics including queerness, Zulu culture and history.
    — Lior Phillips, New York Times, 2023-11-07
  • Other large language families include the reconstructed mother tongue called Niger-Congo, which gave rise to some 1,500 languages spoken over most of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Igbo, Yoruba, and Zulu.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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