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

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 half-Irish, half-Italian women posted prints of the pope and the Last Supper on the walls.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2016

The next woman who took a stand that revealed genuine social consciousness was that half-French, half-Italian woman, Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de Rambouillet.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de