Sentence examples for of Italian extraction from inspiring English sources

Most popular bees here are of Italian extraction.

Her mother was of Italian extraction, and her cattleman father was Basque.

As Bertani, he got himself up to look like a gangster of Italian extraction.

She doesn't really think she has consciously taken after her father any more than she has her mother, a glamorous, stay-at-home housewife of Italian extraction.

Many of the people here are of Italian extraction, so almost every urban restaurant offers pasta, as well as a local approximation to pizza.

I have never seen the heretical technique of cooking the spinach with the pasta anywhere but in the kitchens of American home cooks (though at least one of those was of Italian extraction), and it's certainly not in the canon.

She is of Italian descent.

All subjects were of Italian descent.

I called later to say that he was of German and Italian extraction.

He was born to immigrants from Siderno in deepest Calabria (which should dispel any lingering belief that all those in the US of recent southern Italian extraction end up as opera singers or mobsters).

It begins with the exotic eroticism of Rudolph Valentino (himself of French-Italian extraction), star of the 1921 silent "The Sheik" (hence the documentary's title).