How to Use hate crime in a Sentence

hate crime

noun

• The three men committed some of the most high-profile crimes of the past decade, which included hate crimes and charges of terrorism.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
• At the time of their departures, hate crimes were spiking in the city amid fallout from the Israel-Hamas war.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
• After making a travesty of a hate crime, Jussie Smollett has earned his place behind bars.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
• Sadie, who wondered whether she and Eddie had been singled out because of the color of their skin, hoped Sorensen would be charged with a hate crime.
  — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022
• Smollett maintains his innocence and continues to claim the hate crime really happened.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Mar. 2022
• The racist rants that federal prosecutors later shared in text messages and other communications made clear that Arbery was a victim of a hate crime.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
• Astonishingly, only about 10 percent of police departments report hate crime data to the feds.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
• District Attorney Shannon Wallace did not pursue hate crime charges against him, citing no evidence of racial animus.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Mack Davis, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of committing a hate crime by attempting to carry out the mass killings in Owosso, about 25 miles west of Flint.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
• This led some who live on the block to believe the fires were a hate crime.
  — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
• Two of the teens’ charges had a hate crime enhancement.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
• The shooter of two Jewish men in L.A. agrees to plead guilty to hate crimes.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Many of the women who will rest at this site were victims of hate crimes.
  — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The alleged hate crime is the latest in a string of incidents in the city.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• Intolerance and hate crimes are on the rise in the U.S. and beyond.
  — Keeley Teslik, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• As of Thursday, the 25-year-old suspect has not been accused of a hate crime.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• But amid the rise in hate crimes, a small group of activists has vowed to continue its work.
  — John Humphrey Agaba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
• She was charged with assault as a hate crime, and other charges, the complaint states.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Rabbi Chanukov adamantly claims that this was a hate crime.
  — Matteo Cina, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
• And – and lunar new year, is this possibly a hate crime?
  — ABC News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Lynch has not been charged in connection with that crime, nor has he been charged with a hate crime.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• And so when those of us heard about this shooting, the first thing that came to our minds was, was this an anti-Asian hate crime?
  — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Gendron, 19, was indicted last week on the hate crime charges and weapons counts.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 July 2022
• These killings have not yet been deemed hate crimes by officials.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
• His charges include first-degree murder and two counts of hate crimes.
  — Zohreen Shah, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Fields is serving a life sentence for murder and hate crimes.
  — Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 3 July 2024
• Police told him the incident didn’t rise to the level of a hate crime so they were left to choose whether to pull their child from school.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
• In the end, the prosecutors couldn’t convict the murderer of a hate crime.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
• This week, a grand jury classified the shooting as a hate crime.
  — Staff Author Published, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
• The state is one of only two in the U.S. that does not have hate crime legislation signed into law.
  — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025