Example Sentences

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We’re both half-Asian, half-white — we’ve always had this kind of mixed identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Even my white friend idolized the captain of her volleyball team, a half-Japanese, half-white girl.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2024

Anna, half-Korean, half-white, is 13 when adopted from Seoul in 1977.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

When he was born in a home for unwed mothers in 1960 in Peoria, Ill., Uphoff’s adoption paperwork mistakenly listed him as half-white and half-Mexican, an identity he carried through childhood.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2021

Far out in the river I could see the half-white, half-black head of balding old Mama Lalaba, who must have decided crocodiles were preferable to death by nsongonya.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver