How to Use American in a Sentence

American

1 of 2 noun
Definition of Americannext
  • Americans in all 50 states.
  • The President's speech began with the words “My fellow Americans…”.
  • That was down from 53% who had faith in the American Dream a decade ago.
    — Aaron Zitner, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • That changed the whole idea of the American Dream to Americans.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The revenge thriller begins on the open roads somewhere in the American West.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Smoke is expected to blanket the skies up and down the American West Coast for the near-future.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Garfield's American Way Market sat on the corner of Pierce and 10th streets for decades and served as the neighborhood's grocery store.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Is the American that is living in Gaza less important than the one living in Israel?
    — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The island sits along a tectonic plate boundary that separates the North American from the Eurasian Plate.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Some 25% of deaths at the hands of the police are related to mental health events, research from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows.
    — Eli Cahan, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The band has been working with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for over a decade.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Less than seven percent of all conductors are Black, according to the League of American Orchestras’ 2023 study.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Scientific American spoke to Emanuel about the model and how it could be implemented.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
  • It’s long been called the American Riviera, and, like its French cousin, this southern California enclave enjoys a stylish summer season.
    — Katrina Brown Hunt, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
  • The hospital received a high honor that year – admission to the Register of the American Medical Society.
    — Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But Mars just has one tectonic plate, per Scientific American.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Students learning in hotter environments tend to learn less and perform more poorly on tests, according to a study published in the American Economic Journal.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • For the American Cinematheque, which reopened the movie house in 1998 after years of neglect, the partnership allows the film society to keep programming films on weekends without having to worry about fixing leaks and cracks.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Horwitz believes that while more Americans are presumably buying guns for self-defense, there surely will be an increase of reckless shooting incidents.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Barton plays Reece, a mysterious American who arrives in Erinsborough with a secret agenda.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • The duo previously worked together on 2007 movie American Gangster.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In a white paper this year, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said 51% of members participating in an annual survey had said that their top expatriate candidates were unwilling to move to the country, up 21% from the previous year.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Authorities, both American (which claimed lack of jurisdiction) and Ugandan (wary of scaring away other Western missionaries), dragged their feet.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Heavy metals like lead can get into food products from soil, air, water or industrial processes, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
    — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The American Psychological Association also notes time spent outdoors can create improvements in mood, cognitive function and overall well-being, among other impacts.
    — Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2024
  • In its most recent estimate, the American Association of Medical Colleges projects increasing physician shortages nationwide.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In 2022, the American Gastroenterological Association updated its guideline for doctors on when acid-reflux drug prescriptions should be reduced or discontinued.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In lieu of receipts to document expenses, the organization’s controller eventually reviewed Mercurio’s personal American Express credit card statements and his reimbursement requests.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Americans in all 50 states.
  • The President's speech began with the words “My fellow Americans…”.
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American

2 of 2 adjective
  • Oh was the first, in 2019), and the first Asian American man to do so.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • He was stretched out on the couch, which was draped in a large blanket patterned like the American flag.
    — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • No one appears to keep track of how many such sleights of hand are cropping up in American homes.
    — Jane Margolies, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • That's going to mean that the APR on every American credit card is about to go up.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The North American leg will be launching on Dec. 13 in Brooklyn.
    — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The arc of American voting history has been with stops and starts.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Late last year, the 19-year-old star canceled her North American tour to focus on her mental health.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Just put this South American native in a warmer room with indirect light and let its lush, droopy fronds bring a touch of the tropics to your home.
    — Molly Miller, housebeautiful.com, 31 May 2023
  • And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • An American investor called to the siren song of Italy who didn’t end up shipwrecked in the stormy waters of its bureaucracy.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Some American tourists are also trapped in the Holy Land, desperate to return home.
    — Taylor Penley, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • This 95 percent polyester, 5 percent spandex maxi is the next best thing to wearing the American flag itself.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 11 June 2023
  • Until this point, the film has shown how American culture has been shaping modern Bhutan, but in this moment, it’s made clear what the country can teach the rest of the world.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Those shows brought the first North American leg of the Guts world tour to a close as the singer and songwriter gets ready to head over to Europe for nearly two full months of performances.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Young Israelis and American Jews came in droves over the past 15 years, fascinated by the city’s laissez-faire vibe, buzzing nightlife and low cost of living.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Polls are a snapshot in time and America — the American people — are whole people.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • What’s still keeping American workers out of the office?
    — Julia Carpenter, WSJ, 31 May 2023
  • And their connection to family and their culture is closer to mine than the American way.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The Good American founder, 39, who only recently revealed her toddler's name, posed with Tatum on her hip in the first picture.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • The American public wants a House speaker who will work across the aisle and try to cut spending, but who won't try to either shut down the government or impeach Joe Biden.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • To top it all off, a nother American obsession — tequila — is starting to cause problems too.
    — Mark Stevenson, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The film is very funny and makes great use of flights of fantasy, something that comes out of the Latin American literary tradition.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • That's not the history of Black folks, that's American history.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Or maybe also like an American ideal of pulling up yourself by your bootstraps.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, Beijing makes no pretense of its support for all these and many more challenges to American dominance.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • This is not the American health care system’s first crippling cyberattack, of course.
    — Erika Fry, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Food More than 50 million American kids have a food allergy.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of the Asian American actors that I was first introduced to were primarily theater actors who didn’t pay all the bills through film and television.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2024

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