pro-American

adjective

in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc

noun

a person who is in favour of or supports America, its people, culture, etc

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Example sentences from the Web for pro-american

The good news is that large numbers of Iranians are pro-American.
Here’s What the U.S. Has to Do to Deal With the Mad Middle East|Leslie H. Gelb|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now Fayyad, who for more than a decade has been the most pro-American Palestinian official, is leaving the scene.
What Doomed Salam Fayyad?|Peter Beinart|April 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Far fewer believe that the peoples of the Middle East yearn for secular, liberal, pro-American democracies.
Ten Years Later, the Hubris That Landed Us in Iraq Has Collapsed|Peter Beinart|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The non-Pashtuns, who make up around 60 percent of the Afghan people, are the most pro-American in the country.
To Hell With Karzai|Leslie H. Gelb|March 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Barack Obama will be welcomed in Israel, for the pro-American sentiments run deep in that country.
Barack Obama’s Cairo Speech, and His Israel Problem|Marty Peretz|February 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was the pro-American group and the pro-German government group.
Germany, The Next Republic?|Carl W. Ackerman
And it is a pro-American group of Russian refugees who have an economic doctrine of their own.
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Tisza, as well as all Hungarians, is pro-American before he is pro-German.
Germany, The Next Republic?|Carl W. Ackerman
But she did not; her peace was to be like her war, pro-American rather than anti-English.
With Americans of Past and Present Days|J. J. Jusserand
He is also pro-American (he lived in the States many years and his family is still there).
After the Rain|Sam Vaknin