How to Use hate crime in a Sentence

hate crime

noun
  • Vermont has sat stubbornly high on antisemitic hate crimes charts.
    Mike Wagenheim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax conviction overturned?!
    The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Police are calling the attack a hate crime as 11 of 13 people who were shot were Black — and there could have been more victims if he hadn't been stopped.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 16 May 2022
  • Amid fears of another possible hate crime, the man in custody was described by law enforcement sources as also being of Asian descent.
    Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 15 May 2022
  • Erie County Sheriff John Garcia expressly called the shooting a hate crime.
    Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • The Orange County Sheriff’s Department labeled it a hate crime.
    Frank Shyongcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
  • The shooting unfolded as the U.S. continues to grapple with a surge in hate crime against people of Asian ancestry.
    Kurt Chirbas, NBC News, 17 May 2022
  • Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying to the police about a hate crime he was accused of staging against himself was overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 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
  • 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 federal hate crime charges were announced last month.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 July 2022
  • With the recent rise in Asian American hate crimes around the United States, this book is a timely must-read.
    Saleah Blancaflor, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Hate speech alone would not constitute a hate crime under the First Amendment.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024

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