How to Use biracial in a Sentence

biracial

adjective
  • The biracial Noah is the first host of color to win in this category.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And of the eight WilmerHale lawyers who have argued before the court since the 2017 term, three are women and two are biracial.
    Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Carey shared with Markle about her own struggles fitting in as a biracial young girl.
    Tre'vaughn Howard, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The family, which has lived in Allen since 2011 and is biracial, planned to move to a different house in the city, Hawkins Sr. said.
    Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Growing up as a biracial child in Los Angeles taught me a lot.
    De Los Staff, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • His father John was a free man; his mother was biracial.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023
  • Hoover is biracial — of Black and white ancestry — and stands at 6 feet 2 inches.
    Aaron Morrison, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The clip, which has more than 5 million views since being posted on Dec. 26, sees the biracial couple seated in a booth at the chain.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Michelle, who is biracial, agreed to be the Bachelorette in hopes of finding love like her own parents.
    Haley Kluge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Even as a lighter-skinned biracial woman, her Blackness proved to be a point of contention among the white people who spoke about her.
    Hazlitt, 3 May 2023
  • Two of her grandsons, ages 18 and 24, are biracial and identify as Black.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Manet’s portrait of the biracial actress Jeanne Duval, she of the coal-black eyes and parachute dress, is a traffic stopper.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Because her daughter was biracial, Greve faced ostracism and was forced out of her apartment in New York.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • Growing up as a biracial kid meant learning to embrace her mixed heritage and unique features, from her skin to her hair.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Your own experiences as a biracial person can serve as a way to connect with your kid, too.
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For example, the Dashwood sisters had a white father, and are Black biracial.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For Amarteifio, who is biracial, the double-take was initially dizzying.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • During her season, Sydney opened up to Weber about growing up biracial in the south.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Cassar, who is biracial, would have been not only the first female House speaker but the first Black female speaker.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • Now living in Robert’s apartment, Liss gave birth to a son, Harry, whom Robert later described as biracial.
    Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • Jackson, as Hailey performs under the stage name Halsey, because like the singer, Hailey, too, is biracial.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Saal, who is biracial, says that some of the first people to push back on her childhood interest in sports and the outdoors were in her own community.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The child, who is biracial, was pushed off his bike by a middle-aged white man while riding around town with his friends on June 27, according to a video taken by one of his friends.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2022
  • This does not preclude Santos from being biracial—but clarity on any part of his background has been hard to come by.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Parents Angela and Mike said they were made aware of the photo after their daughter, who is biracial, showed it to them, according to the news station.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 May 2022
  • The 2018 novel tells the story of Mike Muñoz, a young biracial gay Chicano from a working-class family in Washington state.
    Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • The couple quit royal duties and moved to California in 2020, citing a lack of support from the palace and racist press treatment of Meghan, who is biracial.
    Brian Melley, Fortune, 2 July 2023
  • Unlike their mother, Rangel-Samponaro and her sisters stood out as biracial.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the tweets used coded racist language, according to Bot Sentinel, which said that Meghan, who is biracial, was the subject of about 80 percent of the harassment.
    Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Her son was biracial and probably would have been deemed Afro-Latino today.
    Ariana Debose, Variety, 7 Feb. 2022

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