How to Use Black Lives Matter in a Sentence

Black Lives Matter

noun

• This section of the movie is filmed after the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
  — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 20 June 2024
• Along came Covid and Black Lives Matter, but the film kept chugging along.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
• And in 2015 people were scared to use the hashtag Black Lives Matter.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• He was sworn in as chief in 2020 at the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement and pandemic.
  — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
• Other photos of protests and struggles bridge the decades from the 1960s to the era of Black Lives Matter and modern activism.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• He’s asked the company to instead reroute these checks to Black Lives Matter.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• His death was among the catalysts for the Black Lives Matter movement in summer 2020.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• But as soon as the Black Lives Matter chants quieted in the streets, so did their rabid support.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
• One social movement that gripped the nation was called Black Lives Matter.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• And despite the course’s origins around the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, study of the movement is optional.
  — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• Even with Black Lives Matter, the goal is Black liberation.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• The book was inspired by the same events that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement — police killings of unarmed Black men and women.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• There is no mention of a contribution to Black Lives Matter.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024
• He’s made similar websites to aid victims of the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey, and for people to find protests to support Black Lives Matter.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2024
• Moreover, Kendi, despite his public gestures of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, has a top-down view of change.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• Kelce has since continued to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• For a while, it was almost guaranteed that, somewhere on the homepage or the log-in screen, there would be a little black square that featured a message about Black Lives Matter.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• The shirt is an appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement's chant that is intended to give voice to women who had been killed by police.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 raised awareness about racial profiling by law enforcement.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• At least so far, the pro-Palestinian protests have been relatively small compared with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• There were rainbow-flag face masks and Black Lives Matter T-shirts and buttons affirming the many other tenets of yard-sign liberalism.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The phrase is one that was adopted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and the rapper faced backlash from both fans and celebrities online.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 June 2024
• She’s also drawn fire for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
• The track was criticized for promoting gun violence and taking aim at the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
• The pandemic’s seemingly never-ending costs, and the growing support across the country for the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The settlements reflect the extent of police misconduct during the Black Lives Matter protests.
  — Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
• An internal movement withers The inferno that the Black Lives Matter resurgence sparked in 2020 has since dwindled.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2024
• His stance is perhaps an outlying one in a nation where some social movements, like Black Lives Matter, have only just begun to make waves.
  — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• In one instance, a man driving past the Black Lives Matter protesters threw coffee out the window, drenching an older woman.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
• Paige has also been vocal about advocating for Black Lives Matter as Drew is biracial.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024