Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2024

Stansfield, who identified himself as half-white, told police he got the nickname Casper the Friendly Ghost in jail.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Thompson, who is half-Navajo and half-white, has never been shy about his heritage, but over the years, it’s an aspect of himself that he has grown more comfortable sharing in his music.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Half-Asian and half-white, Angie, 16, is the “token minority” student at her high school in Galveston, Texas, though she has never felt particularly Asian.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

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