Tejanos is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tejanos meaning
plural of Tejano
Using Tejanos
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Tejano
- In the example corpus, tejanos often appears in combinations such as: the tejanos, tejanos in.
Context around Tejanos
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tejanos
- In this selection, "tejanos" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, citizens, original and texans stand out and add context to how "tejanos" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the tejanos in seguín and arrived some tejanos have ancestors. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tejanos" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tejanos
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Finally able to settle legally in Texas, Anglos from the United States soon vastly outnumbered the Tejanos. (17 words)
Smith tried to veto the latter requirement, as he believed even Tejanos with federalist leanings should be denied suffrage. (19 words)
New Anglo settlers moved in and used threats and legal maneuvering to take over the land once owned by Tejanos. (20 words)
Out of concern that his men might not differentiate between Mexican soldiers and the Tejanos in Seguín's company, Houston originally ordered Seguín and his men to remain in Harrisburg to guard those who were too ill to travel quickly. (40 words)
However, the cuisine that would come to be called Tex-Mex actually originated with Tejanos (Texans of Mexican descent) as a mix of native Mexican and Spanish foods when Texas was part of New Spain and later Mexico. (38 words)
Over one-third of Texas residents are of Hispanic origin; while many have recently arrived, some Tejanos have ancestors with multi-generational ties to 18th century Texas. (27 words)
Example sentences (10)
Edmondson (2000), p. 78. New laws also called for the enforcement of customs duties angering both native Mexican citizens ( Tejanos ) and recent immigrants.
Finally able to settle legally in Texas, Anglos from the United States soon vastly outnumbered the Tejanos.
However, the cuisine that would come to be called Tex-Mex actually originated with Tejanos (Texans of Mexican descent) as a mix of native Mexican and Spanish foods when Texas was part of New Spain and later Mexico.
It is likely that the statistics on the Texian army size in both 1835 and 1836 underestimate the number of Tejanos who served in the army.
Many of the original Tejanos had Basque blood, including those who fought in the Battle of the Alamo alongside many of the other Texans.
New Anglo settlers moved in and used threats and legal maneuvering to take over the land once owned by Tejanos.
Out of concern that his men might not differentiate between Mexican soldiers and the Tejanos in Seguín's company, Houston originally ordered Seguín and his men to remain in Harrisburg to guard those who were too ill to travel quickly.
Over one-third of Texas residents are of Hispanic origin; while many have recently arrived, some Tejanos have ancestors with multi-generational ties to 18th century Texas.
Rusk ordered that all Tejanos in the area between the Guadalupe and Nueces Rivers migrate either to east Texas or to Mexico.
Smith tried to veto the latter requirement, as he believed even Tejanos with federalist leanings should be denied suffrage.
Common combinations with tejanos
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tejanos 2×
- tejanos in 2×