Wondering how to use Americans in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Americans meaning
plural of American
Using Americans
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of American
- In the example corpus, americans often appears in combinations such as: of americans, native americans, african americans.
Context around Americans
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Americans
- In this selection, "americans" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, african, asian, white, asian, hispanic and believe stand out and add context to how "americans" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 19th century americans knew what, 21st century americans know books, native americans, african americans and black americans. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "americans" sits close to words such as income, border and civil, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with americans
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Indeed, many Americans and African-Americans, as mentioned above, looked to it for inspiration. (14 words)
So yes, look, I mean Americans by far, North Americans particularly spend the best. (14 words)
If that happened, it would effectively shift money from younger Americans to older Americans, and would probably worsen economic inequality. (20 words)
They also grasp that over the decades — centuries, really — racist policies made it possible for some people (i.e. white Americans) to flourish, while impeding progress for others (i.e. Black Americans, indigenous Americans and other people of color). (39 words)
As of September 2022, more than Americans were enrolled in Medicare, the federal program that pays for health care for Americans age 65 and up and certain younger people with disabilities. (31 words)
Americans will rally around a true threat to the security of the United States, but few Americans believe Iran is capable of wreaking havoc against Americans on U.S. soil. (30 words)
The only possibility of real “common ground” to be found by Americans is if we re-establish our guiding principles as Americans! (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans and other people of colour played a crucial role in helping Biden defeat President Donald Trump.
I represent inspiration and the blue-collar, hard-working Americans – Asian-Americans, Americans, Hispanic-Americans – that’s what I was brought up with.
It is estimated that 30 to 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant, including 75% of Native Americans and African Americans, and 90% of Asian Americans.
They also grasp that over the decades — centuries, really — racist policies made it possible for some people (i.e. white Americans) to flourish, while impeding progress for others (i.e. Black Americans, indigenous Americans and other people of color).
Americans of all demographic groups want to keep turkey as the mainstay of Thanksgiving dinner, though Americans under 30 are less likely than older Americans to prefer it.
Americans will rally around a true threat to the security of the United States, but few Americans believe Iran is capable of wreaking havoc against Americans on U.S. soil.
Trump outperformed establishment golden boy Mitt Romney among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, reducing the Democratic advantage with each of those groups by several percentage points.
Rhode Island has a higher percentage of Americans of Portuguese ancestry, including Portuguese Americans and Cape Verdean Americans than any other state in the nation.
Americans have slightly more after-tax income than Canadians do, so it would appear that Americans are less at risk of mortgage defaults this year compared to Canadians.
As of September 2022, more than Americans were enrolled in Medicare, the federal program that pays for health care for Americans age 65 and up and certain younger people with disabilities.
For example, only 34% of Americans believe that it is never appropriate to teach in public schools that some Americans are transgender.
If that happened, it would effectively shift money from younger Americans to older Americans, and would probably worsen economic inequality.
I like to imagine 19th century Americans knew what wise 21st century Americans know: Books are a perfect gift to wrap if you don’t know how to wrap gifts.
Indeed, many Americans and African-Americans, as mentioned above, looked to it for inspiration.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t have a college degree, which means a solid majority of Americans are seeing their prospect of a long life dimming.
So yes, look, I mean Americans by far, North Americans particularly spend the best.
The Economic Policy Institute notes that Black Americans are just over half as likely as white Americans to have a college degree.
The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide of business sectors and contributed to theof poorer Americans.
The letter reflects King’s belief that Black Americans are entitled to the same rights and opportunities as White Americans.
The only possibility of real “common ground” to be found by Americans is if we re-establish our guiding principles as Americans!
Phrases with americans
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with americans
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of americans 39×
- native americans 38×
- african americans 37×
- americans and 34×
- black americans 24×
- white americans 22×
- the americans 20×
- americans are 18×
- americans who 16×
- americans in 16×