Example Sentences

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The neighbour said the mother was half-Polish and half-Italian and had lived at the address for about two years.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024

As I've mentioned before, culinary school was one of the first times that I felt pride in my half-Italian heritage.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2022

“Because the character is half-Italian in the 1830s, she could be coming from Mars,” Mr. Michell said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2017

Your white, half-Italian husband, who’s wild about cake, who, in his pastry-crazed heart, truly believes people attend weddings to eat cake, blanched an extra shade of pale.

From Time • Dec. 23, 2016

The houses are mostly of that curious half-Italian, half-Oriental style which we find in almost all Southern and Eastern seaports.

From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)