How to Use racist in a Sentence

racist

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Also, Boston is not the least racist city in the world.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Nov. 2023
  • She was raised in the racist waters and grew up in the same soil and was fed the same food of the Jim Crow South.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • Hambleton might have changed his mind, or some racist lawyer could have stepped up to take the case for free.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The racist attacks haven’t been reserved for him, Scott noted.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Now, more than 84 years after the racist mob forced her from her home, Lee has been given back the land where her house once stood.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Despite all her racist remarks, Mary Cosby is back on the show.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • To be clear, the Apgar Score has saved countless newborns, and Apgar was not racist.
    — Amos Grünebaum, STAT, 23 Jan. 2024
  • His name and the image appear to have been a prank or joke mocking a victim of racist terror.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Benz, in his public posts and appearances, has not espoused the same racist views as Frame Game.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Also, when they were confronted by racist police, by the Klan—most often one in the same back then.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 27 July 2023
  • There are both noble calls to the angels of our better nature and far-right racist demagogues who speak to the dark and evil side.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • This week claimed that the U.S. was never racist during an interview.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Mansour could, of course, be using nègre in a purely racist sense.
    — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the discovery in 2017 of such an account, run by students, with racist posts shattered a Bay Area high school and its town.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In 2022, members of a racist hate group called Patriot Front marched through downtown Coeur d’Alene.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The campaign is also wary of stories that might make Trump look too extreme, or even overtly racist.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The film doesn’t shy from the tense conversations between Abraham and Adra about how racist policies impact their lives.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Lawyers for Moss and Freeman, who are Black, also played for jurors audio recordings of the graphic and racist threats the women received.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2023
  • He was accused of choking a restaurant patron, who said Knight had been making racist remarks.
    — Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Kendi says that his books serve as a medium to inform audiences that the origins of racist ideas and policies are the problem, not Black people.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Surveillance footage shared with CBS News shows the brazenness of the work behind the gallows and noose, which have a history of racist and threatening overtones.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But cellphone video of the episode that captured the minutes leading up to the shooting shows the eventual victim screaming threats and racist remarks at the second man.
    — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Grossberg alleged that her time at Carlson’s show was marked by sexist, racist and anti-semitic comments.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2023
  • His latest false birther claims to Baier are another racist dog whistle in a history of such language.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Understand that the only way to do that is to draw a line in the sand and set very clear guidelines about behavior that is racist, violent, and unlawful.
    — Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024
  • Who is actually the butt of this joke—Gillis, Dominicans, racist white people with their stupid haircuts?
    — TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In a cabin in the woods, the group stumbles across a racist board game, and subsequently finds themselves being hunted by a masked murderer.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The teacher had repeatedly leveled racist and sexist slurs against the student.
    — Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Fans may believe that uncovering the racist roots of the Churchill family tree will tarnish the image of the event and diminish its delight.
    — TIME, 4 May 2024
  • His mother, as Roberts recalled, felt that the family had to leave racist Mississippi.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 18 July 2023
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racist

2 of 2 noun
  • The play, which Clive Barnes of The Times called racist, closed after a week.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Nothing but treasonous racists, and that's on a good day.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This type of thinking is hardcore racist and goes back decades.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The months leading up to the 1963 March were bloody and full of conflict between activists and racists.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • Some fans are even questioning if Tolkien was a racist.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Dishari’s lawyer Sean Sullivan said his client is not a racist.
    — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Mixon took to social media and was adamant Gundy is not a racist.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2022
  • May the huge majority of fans, who are good people, stand up to shut up all the racists once and for all!
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Some of them have been caught on camera yelling racist taunts at Black and Asian contestants.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • And there were people who weren’t racists who said, Look, that is our history.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Although very funny and true many times, Scott Adams is clearly a racist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The father then found a suicide note, a will, and writings that Waters has described as racist.
    — Russ Bynum and Aaron Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Cal State San Marcos will remove its founder’s name from a building for a past comment deemed racist.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The activists were recording and yelling at De León, including calling him a racist.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Third: Your partner’s mother is a racist, and your daughter is a person of color.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2022
  • The gunman used racial slurs, left behind a racist screed and drew swastikas on his firearm, authorities said.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The podcast episode was pulled from Apple and Spotify after Healy’s fans called the remarks racist.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Republicans still say some of the attacks on Mr. Irvin bordered on racist.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • With verve, Domingo digs into the experience of a Black gay man in the racist and homophobic 1960s.
    — Leanne Italie, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The song and video have riled some listeners, who are taking issue with lyrics that some fans are considering pro-gun and racist.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 July 2023
  • Someone who was proud of his heritage but smart enough and self-disciplined enough not to fight back when the racists, in the stands and on the field, started hurling invectives his way.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The comments in a private chat group were violent and racist, said Bob Krapenc, Develin’s defense attorney in the state case.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The woman became enraged, calling the manager a racist and threatening to beat her up, even kill her.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The racist, violent texts continued, although the woman no longer replied.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Congress has been littered with racists and drunks and bribe-takers throughout its history.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Lemon once called former President Donald Trump a racist.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Hurtado said Ureña has called her racist for objecting to speaking Spanish from the dais.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But the road to the dismantling of this illiberal, anti-science, racist, and now antisemitic ideology promises to be long and hard.
    — Richard T. Bosshardt, National Review, 17 Apr. 2024

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