Example Sentences

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The show’s researchers found that the actor’s mother and aunt were the children of the half-German baby.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022

“All these countries I never thought I’d travel to — just to tell jokes. There are these half-German, half-Filipino kids who discovered me on the internet,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

Today, I shall go to the German embassy in London to sign the necessary forms so that my half-German sons may apply for dual citizenship.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

Mr. Stark left the bank in 2011 and was replaced by Peter Praet, a Belgian citizen who is half-German.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2018

The story of the Green Rust burst out in a wild flood of language which was half-German and half-English.

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar