How to Use Filipina in a Sentence

Filipina

noun
  • The 23-woman Filipina roster was the country’s first team — men’s or women’s — to qualify for the World Cup.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Being Filipina American really shapes my relationship to food and to gathering and care.
    — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • According to the release, the male suspect was a 52-year-old Hispanic man, and the female was a 45-year-old Filipina female.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Both were Filipina American, both were being raised by single mothers, both were juniors at large public high schools in Los Angeles.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lucas, who is Filipina American, represents a concerning trend for researchers.
    — Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • For the fans in the crowd witnessing her deeply meaningful first-ever performance in the Philippines, the 21-year-old pop star — who is half Filipina — was certainly more than enough.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Each of the women have different family histories and relationships to their Filipina identity.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • Lustre plays Jamie, an overseas Filipina worker who returns to her isolated home province when rumors of mysterious killings brought about by a primal curse begin to circulate.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The festival is screening the series’ stand-alone, feature-length penultimate episode, about Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong as a typhoon approaches the city.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The mother is a Filipina former model, who moved to New York—partly to escape the judgment of her parents in Manila—and raised her daughter (with the help of her sister) as a single woman.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Quezada, whose mother is Filipina and whose father is Mexican, attended tryouts in California for the national team while a junior in college.
    — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Her father was a conservative White bus driver, her mother a Filipina maid who had immigrated to the United States after responding to his newspaper ad looking for a wife.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • During her time in the Philippines, Reyes also interviewed Let Dimzon, who is a former player of the Filipina National Team.
    — Jackie Gutierrez, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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