How to Use interracial in a Sentence

interracial

adjective
  • At the time in some areas of the USA, interracial boxing was banned.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • The song tells the tale interracial love affair between a white man and a black woman that doesn’t go over well.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • There was a time when interracial couples and their children had to hide in shame.
    John Blake, CNN, 3 July 2022
  • The fact that three of the couples discussed her are interracial simply isn’t enough progress for 2018.
    refinery29.com, 14 June 2018
  • The bill would also protect interracial marriages; the Supreme Court struck down state laws against such unions in a 1967 case.
    New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • Maybe this interracial-love fetish would have jelled better in the Obama era.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The screenplay by Jake Crane and Jonathan Stewart avoids most of the pitfalls of interracial friendship movies.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Their union was a rare event — the Sethmans are an interracial couple.
    Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Chester Tam wrote the script and is attached to direct the interracial love story inspired by his life.
    Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • It’s named for Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple at the center of the ruling.
    Ryan Murphy, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
  • For interracial couples in the US, the right to marry has been recognized much longer.
    Sara Burnett, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1940s, Greenwood was a member of an interracial group that used lawsuits and other means to force restaurants and shops to serve blacks.
    USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The song dealt with a teenage interracial relationship, a still-taboo subject at the time.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The couple married in 1971, becoming one of the first interracial marriages in the city.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Let’s hope that the World Cup will give us many love stories, interracial couples and children.
    New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • There just happens to be a gay couple at the center, an interracial gay couple at that.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The film was a massive success and featured an interracial couple on screen, pushing the boundaries at the time.
    Susan Welsh, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But more than that, my parents — an interracial couple — were martial artists, and so kung fu movies feel like home.
    Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
  • This is one of the few allusions to the interracial composition of the family with Jake, who is white, and Kyra, who is Black.
    ELLE, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The ad showcased an interracial couple where the woman is Black.
    Sonia Thompson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The same could likely be said for many interracial marriages.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Funt is talking to a man who’s waiting for a bus to arrive when an interracial couple start making out next to them.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
  • James Kirk, a moment that marked one of the first interracial kisses on television.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
  • The film was the first depiction of an interracial relationship in a British film, and marked the first leading role for a Black actor in a mainstream movie in the country.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 4 July 2020
  • Yes, the Freedom Riders were men and women and also an interracial group.
    al, 4 May 2021
  • In the story, a woman named Rena mourns the loss of her sister against the rom-com backdrop of a missing groom, a road trip and an interracial wedding party hookup.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • This painting shows an interracial couple in Mobile in the 1830s.
    New York Times, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Black leads as well as an interracial couple as their neighbors.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Why is this the third movie to cast a white dude as a person of color in an interracial relationship where he's demonized ... ?
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Letty’s extreme act and her sentiments gesture toward the trauma of interracial rape that marked so many enslaved women’s lives, and the refusal by some women to mother infants stemming from it.
    Kali Nicole Gross / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024

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