How to Use mixed-race in a Sentence

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• Given the tenor of the times, Oberon hid her mixed-race heritage.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• So an 11-year-old mixed-race slave girl brought the system down.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• There are many mixed-race children who don’t get that chance.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn't always easy.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 May 2023
• As a mixed-race girl, my child is likely to encounter some of these stereotypes too.
  — Pragya Agarwal, Scientific American, 24 June 2024
• The mother had taken, and still takes, great pride in her [own] mixed-race heritage, in the fact that her father was white.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• Much of the action takes place in the nearby mixed-race neighborhood, Reboleira.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• The video shows Carpenter taking pictures of a mixed-race couple wearing a bridal gown and a suit.
  — Beth Reinhard, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• That there were Black people living there, mixed-race people living there.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
• Dudley's mixed-race family lost their home here as a result.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minehane, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• At same time, a semi-nomadic group of mixed-race people called the Griqua settled nearby.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• That’s a pile for a folk-art portrait, even though Johnson is a mixed-race artist in our age of diversity and the portrait has been in the same family for 220 years.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• Adapted from Charles Chesnutt’s 1900 novel of the same name, the film’s heroine is a mixed-race woman who passes for white and is wooed by a white millionaire.
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
• Here, Liu talks more about her upbringing, personal style, and growing up in a mixed-race household.
  — Claire Stern, ELLE, 16 July 2023
• Politics Ali: What’s so hard about mixed-race heritage for Trump to understand?
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• Known as the Black Princess, this mestiza (mixed-race woman) was feared as a landowner of various estates and hundreds of slaves.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
• The country also elected an openly-gay, mixed-race son of an immigrant as their leader in 2017.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
• Like most mixed-race people, Harris says there is nothing to be ashamed of about having roots in more than one culture or continent.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Both Fyodor and Timo are of mixed-race parentage; otherwise the couple are nothing alike.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• As a White guy in a mixed-race relationship, I’m also pumped Kamala would give us the first White guy first gentleman #girldad.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
• Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• When Aren is instructed by his dealer to court a collector, the White arts patron mistakes our mixed-race hero for a caterer and hands him his empty wine glass.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• In this case, fixing variables meant no split by gender, no mixed-race categories, and only full-time and year-round employment.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Marian is among a group of mixed-race children whose mothers say they were conceived after rape by British soldiers training in Kenya.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 17 June 2024
• What remains are mestizo or mixed-race descendants of the Selk’nam, but as a people, they were completely murdered.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Between the calf and the woman are works that weave the story of Caribbean life from the start of colonialism to the present, where a mixed-race populace still deals with the aftereffects of domination.
  — Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024
• The title character of the play is Black, and, in an effort to bring the message of the play into the present, Mathews’s teacher had shown the class a television segment about a Cheerios commercial with a mixed-race couple.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• Anders also makes a case for Hudson’s role as a progressive American hero — inclusive, feminist and, by the end of the movie, grandfather to a mixed-race child.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Perhaps the most subtly frightening part of the George Floyd case was that two of the three officers who were complicit in his death were themselves minorities—one Hmong, another mixed-race.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Herriman, born in the nineteenth century in New Orleans to a mixed-race family, often presented himself, in his adult life, as Greek.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jan 2025