How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence

sub-Saharan

adjective
  • Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The second sub-Saharan winning city has shown a steady climb since first appearing on the list three years ago.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • For many decades, it was seen rarely, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Patrick Jackson, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Servals are medium-sized wild cats native to sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
  • For the first time, the world is starting to roll out malaria vaccines to children in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Death counts have remained low throughout sub-Saharan Africa for most of the pandemic.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Up to a third of those deaths would be of children, with sub-Saharan Africa likely to be hardest hit, the research found.
    — Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Sudan was one of the first sub-Saharan African countries to win its independence.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • This matters because across sub-Saharan Africa, coffee plants often share fields with banana trees and weeds.
    — Lily Peck, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For decades, Egypt has been a refuge for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trying to escape war or poverty.
    — Samy Magdy, Fortune Europe, 17 Mar. 2024
  • These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, in the Cape Verde islands, to be specific.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, 19 countries are unable to make debt payments or are at high risk of reaching that point.
    — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
  • In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest global rate of child labor - about 1 in 4 kids work.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • The decrease in aid for sub-Saharan Africa from rich countries last year compared with 2021.
    — Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
    — Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
  • Turkson, 76, could be the first ever pope from sub-Saharan Africa, an area where the Church is growing.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Plans to build the tallest tower in sub-Saharan Africa in Ethiopia have been reignited after a yearlong hiatus.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • Historically, this has been the dietary trend for much of sub-Saharan Africa, but this is starting to change— one egg at a time.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The biggest increases in lost sleep were in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Olivia Rudgard / Bloomberg, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That is enough charge for as many as 228 million musket shots, far more shots than there were people in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Most of the migrants were Moroccans, and a smaller number were from sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Most of the migrants were Moroccans, while a smaller number were from sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The Nile monitor is a semi-aquatic lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Sergio Candido, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Native to the savannas and open woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, ostriches have evolved not for flight, but for speed and endurance.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • These are the farmers, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, who are facing the brunt of climate change while contributing almost nothing to it.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025

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