How to Use "Yankee" with Example Sentences

1. The proud french aristocrat was happy to call himself " half yankee " .
2. European and japanese auto makers set up design studios in southern california to study the habits of the inscrutable yankee , with his big gulp and third-trimester belly .
3. In one engagement lasting just 10 minutes , the yankee 5th new york regiment loses more men than any other regiment during the entire civil war .