How to Use anglophone in a Sentence

anglophone

adjective
  • No Anglophone author channels molten rage with her level of skill.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • The pope will go to Bamenda, the largest Anglophone city in the country, to take part in a peace meeting.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The papal visit with its call for peace is expected to highlight the separatist conflict in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Toxic kitchen culture is hardly unique to France and has been exposed and denounced for years in Anglophone and European countries.
    — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The five anglophone nations give special access to each other’s intelligence and share information on security threats.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
  • To many, Seamus Heaney is the preeminent Anglophone poet of the latter half of the twentieth century.
    — Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Cameroon, with its longstanding Anglophone separatist insurgency and jihadists forcing thousands to flee their homes, is particularly at risk.
    — semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As this list reveals, English has been a welcoming recipient—though at times also a looter—of many words, commodities, and ideas from India that have transformed daily lives and speech in the Anglophone world.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Bamenda has been at the center of a long-running conflict between government forces and Anglophone separatists, which has killed thousands since 2017, including civilians.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The cocoa and oil-producing country faces several challenges including a longstanding separatist insurgency by Anglophone separatists and attacks by jihadist groups.
    — semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The Aeneid has perhaps had more influence on later European and Anglophone literature than any other work from ancient Greek and Roman antiquity.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • While Leo’s predecessors often had their words interpreted or subtitled in English, the current pope speaks in a mid-western accent, allowing his words and interventions to have a greater impact with an anglophone audience.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • Cohen, one of two children in an intellectual, upper-middle-class Jewish family, grew up in affluent Westmount; an Anglophone suburb of the largely French-speaking city.
    — Karen Burshtein, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Held for the first time in an Anglophone country, the summit is expected to draw reactions to the withdrawal of French troops from West Africa that was completed last year amid France's waning regional influence in recent years.
    — ABC News, 10 May 2026
  • But Elham, a contentious and fiercely competitive student, suspects that Marjan’s zeal for anglophone culture, including Hollywood romantic comedies, masks a resentment for the Iranian life she is now stuck with.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
  • In addition, Chinese students also represented just under 40% of international enrollments in Japan, a country where tuition is much cheaper than in Anglophone destinations.
    — Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The African continent is traditionally divided by colonial language barriers, with films in Anglophone countries like Ghana only travelling to other Anglophone countries like Nigeria.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The early translators sought to make their renderings of Dostoevsky, Proust, Kafka and other modern classics conform to traditional English-language preferences for lively and elegant prose, and their pioneering work helped to gain anglophone audiences for those writers.
    — Mark Harman august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Anglophone readers haven’t had access to his work in this format before, but earlier this year Lee released a story collection, Snowy Day and Other Stories, that was translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Anglophone separatist conflict has killed over 6,000 and displaced 600,000, rooted in colonial history when English-speaking regions were marginalized after joining French-speaking Cameroon in 1961.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026

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