How to Use bigotry in a Sentence

bigotry

noun
  • A deeply ingrained bigotry prevented them from even considering the counterarguments.
  • There's a reason why so many stars stay silent in the face of bigotry.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The battle against this type of bigotry is fought, in part, on this level.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 May 2021
  • Foxx’s salty reading of Bunker-style bigotry struck a chord, and the show had a healthy six-season run.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The family achieved success in the face of bigotry, Noel said.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Through their essays, the students stand up and speak out against bias and bigotry.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • If more of us would look for the common good for all of us, hate and bigotry would diminish.
    Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022
  • No one group or faith owns a monopoly on the oldest form of bigotry.
    Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
    David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Once the full extent of his bigotry is laid bare, the play doesn't seem to know where to go, said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
  • West Virginia has seen its share of anti-Semitism and bigotry.
    Larry Luxner, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Despite the title, the bigotry wasn’t aimed at any one nation, but instead to Asians as a whole.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
  • This is how polite people used to think about and talk through bigotry against Jews and all Others.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • She was called racial slurs and faced hateful bigotry from her classmates.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Race is one of the core things utilized by bad actors to fuel hatred and bigotry.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
  • People of Asian descent have been living in the United States for more than 160 years, and have long been the target of bigotry.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The textbooks taught in our schools are full of hate, such as bigotry toward the Baha’i faith and the promotion of terrorism.
    Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Growing sick and tired — as my mom and grandmom would say — of the bulls--- and giving false equivalence to the bigotry, lies and hatred.
    Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • Jackson has not been charged with a hate crime, but Solis believes his killing stemmed from bigotry.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • The paper issued a correction about the factual errors, but not the root of the issue: the bigotry.
    Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Nativism and ethnocentrism and bigotry in high places on both sides of the Atlantic.
    Adam Shaw, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Some forms of anti-Semitism appear to be trolling and genuine bigotry used in an attempt to get a rise out of Jewish users.
    Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • There were the leaked emails of Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen that covered pretty much every square in bigotry bingo.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • When bigotry takes root, what follows is a breakdown in the social contract that binds us as a nation.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Having a prom without any bigotry or even simply a fear of it is a big deal to Mujica.
    Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The collection also critiques the shame enforced by African culture and how that breeds bigotry and lack of expressiveness, a major vice that the brand Fruché seeks to subvert.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Gretchen Whitmer is only the latest example of the gross anti-Catholic bigotry festering inside the Democratic Party.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Oct. 2024

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