How to Use gringo in a Sentence

gringo

noun
  • No one wants to kill a gringo journalist.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Which gringo consultant wrote that?
    — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Many seemed to be locals, or gringos who came here to escape the cold winters back home.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • So does their gringo-style attire, like baggy pants and T-shirts touting their favorite sports teams — Dodgers, Raiders, Dallas Cowboys.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • On the other hand, speaking Spanish with a gringo accent could mark you as an outsider on the island, while not speaking English at all could be seen as backward in the diaspora.
    — Héctor M. Varela Rios, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And straddling it were the Mexicans and the gringos, like two children, eyes shut, their backs to each other, while the Apaches scuttled back and forth between their legs, not sure where to go with strangers bubbling up everywhere, filling their lands.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Chief among them will be numerous fast-talking Americans, who will be seeking to gain profit in an oil-rich country that, for much of the twentieth century, was a mainstay of the Rockefeller empire and a major gringo playground in South America.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026

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