ethnic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ethnic, each labelled with its topic.

• The empire's census recorded each ethnic group by language, listing more than a hundred across its provinces.

  History

• The novel is thick with ethnic detail, from the grandmother's wedding songs to the spices she refuses to buy anywhere but home.

  Literature

• The survey asked how strongly ethnic identity shaped each respondent's choice of friends, food and holiday traditions.

  Psychology

• The new constitution reserved seats for each ethnic minority, so the assembly's debates were held in four languages.

  Politics

• The old quarter is a patchwork of ethnic neighborhoods, each with its own bakeries, radio station and festival calendar.

  Travel

• The ensemble mixes ethnic instruments from three continents, setting a Bulgarian bagpipe beside a West African harp.

  Music

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains ethnic. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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