How to Use biracial in a Sentence

biracial

adjective
  • And there weren’t a ton of biracial people with my hair and my eyes on TV.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
  • Britain’s not racist, but the biracial duchess got bullied out.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 July 2021
  • Caitlin Keryc, of New York City, has a 4-year-old daughter who is biracial.
    The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Moore, who is biracial, grew up in Ullin, a small town about 20 minutes south of Anna.
    Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 12 June 2020
  • 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
  • Wendy Scott showed up with her 5-year-old twins — a boy and a girl — who are biracial and raised by lesbian mothers.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Eaves, who's biracial, was adopted and grew up in an all-Black household.
    Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2021
  • Taylor, who is Black and biracial, already felt afraid of the police.
    Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • One was a white woman married to a Black man with a biracial daughter.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • There’s no ignoring the elephant in the room — Meghan is a biracial Black woman.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Born in the United States, Markle is biracial, having a white father and a black mother.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • This told me a lot about how being biracial has been so core to your public life from the beginning.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
  • 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
  • No song by a Black man, or one known to be biracial, had previously topped both charts.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 8 July 2024
  • Two of her grandsons, ages 18 and 24, are biracial and identify as Black.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And Drake, who is biracial, has been called out as a performer who wears his Blackness as a costume and steals styles and sounds from his peers.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
  • This isn’t the first time the Bay Area native has had to defend her Blackness, in spite of her biracial identity.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Their biracial teenage son does not qualify for the grant program.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The main character is Kobe, a biracial boy, who is smart, kind and talkative.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • The parents of the child pointed to a curriculum about social justice as a source of stress for their child, who is biracial.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The Fields sisters, who are biracial, expressed a love for their hometown but say there are racial divides.
    Bill Glauber, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The 2024 election has been a stark illustration of this fact—a battle between the strongly nativist Trump and the Democrat Kamala Harris, a progressive, biracial woman.
    Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024

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