How to Use Caucasian in a Sentence

Caucasian

adjective
  • Most foundation shades are created with the Caucasian consumer in mind and tend to be too pink or too orange for Asian skin tones.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • One person is a Caucasian woman with short red hair, wearing a stylish denim jacket and jeans.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Investigators had determined in 2010 that the hair found on Brainard-Barnes’s body was a Caucasian head hair fragment.
    Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The tool also generated images of two Asian women when asked to create an image of an Asian woman and her Caucasian friend.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • All participants included in this study were white and Caucasian.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The woman, a Caucasian approximately 45 years of age, wearing a white dress and high heels, was waiting to meet an Uber XL after getting a drink with her attorney and publicist.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 9 Apr. 2023
  • But her win attracted an unusual amount of controversy — because she was born in Ukraine, and is Caucasian in appearance.
    Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • You ever been born Caucasian and become basically African American by sowing cotton seeds, one by one, for miles, with your fingers?
    Alexis Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Police describe the unidentified woman as being 18 to 22 years old and either Caucasian or Hispanic.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That’s despite the school district being roughly equally Caucasian and Hispanic.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Presently, about 63 percent of blood donors are Caucasian, with other groups under represented.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • There is some data to suggest that transepidermal water loss may be higher and ceramide levels slightly lower in Black skin when compared to Caucasian skin which may contribute to dryness.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Being third gen can also leave me feeling not Turkish enough when in the company of extended family, but then also apparently not British enough when out with someone who can’t relate, is Caucasian, or has never had their identity questioned.
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There's a pretty interesting disjunction between the Baloch/Caucasian and European components.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
  • The mixed-language show has impressed critics by going to uncommon lengths to illuminate the inner worlds and attendant subcultures of its many prominent Japanese characters — far beyond their ties to the story’s Caucasian interloper.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Since the Moscow water dog was a mix of Newfoundland and Caucasian shepherds, the military unsuccessfully attempted to mitigate their aggressive nature by breeding more Newfoundland into the bloodline, as their nature was gentler.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Then on a human layer, that becomes even more problematic if the datasets are predominantly of Caucasian individuals and predominantly male individuals.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2024

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