How to Use bigotry in a Sentence

bigotry

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  • There's a reason why so many stars stay silent in the face of bigotry.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Foxx’s salty reading of Bunker-style bigotry struck a chord, and the show had a healthy six-season run.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The family achieved success in the face of bigotry, Noel said.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This is how polite people used to think about and talk through bigotry against Jews and all Others.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • She was called racial slurs and faced hateful bigotry from her classmates.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Race is one of the core things utilized by bad actors to fuel hatred and bigotry.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Jackson has not been charged with a hate crime, but Solis believes his killing stemmed from bigotry.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • There were the leaked emails of Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen that covered pretty much every square in bigotry bingo.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Beneath the childishness of anti-truck bigotry is a ...
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 31 Jan. 2023
  • This story sounds like the makings of a TV miniseries about corruption, bigotry and two dads who learned how to fight back.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Many Corbin residents have worked hard in recent years to overcome the town’s legacy of bigotry.
    — Jason Kyle Howard, The New Republic, 25 June 2023
  • And of course, in its pointed variant, as an icon of American hatred and bigotry.
    — Longreads, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Anti-Catholic bigotry that was rampant in America at the time of Coyle’s slaying, Davies said.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • As for the motivation, it’s not just bigotry that drives a person to commit a mass shooting, the experts said.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • West’s bigotry, which has been directed at others along with Jews.
    — Bill Carter, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, for many relatives of the Doodler victims, the horror from that age of bigotry and fear so long ago is never far away.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And then, secondly, what about bigotry and law breaking?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But fear and bigotry have revived this idea with every new pandemic.
    — Eleanor J. Murray, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Teams and fans could and can forgive bigotry, harassment, and even some serious crimes by players and coaches over the years.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There was, no doubt, some bigotry at play in the press’ assessment of al-Fayed as a desperate social climber who couldn’t quite grasp the elusive rules by which the upper class live.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims across the country have expressed fears about hate crimes and rising bigotry.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The episode, written by the late David Mills, understands that the epithet is only scratching the surface of Sipowicz’s bigotry.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Musk’s latest apparent endorsement of bigotry came in response to a post by a user with the X handle @eyeslasho.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • What shocked her most about that early lesson in bigotry and hate was that those same kids who weren’t allowed to take the photo with her had been buzzing around her mother backstage.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some saw the email release as a self-own for Lewis Brisbois, revealing a culture of bigotry thriving in some corners of the behemoth firm.
    — Matt Hamilton and Harriet Ryan, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • Before the soulless cretins are shown in court as our latest national symbols of hatred and bigotry.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There is casual bigotry around the dinner table, and elsewhere.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Adidas has finally cut ties with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, over his rampant bigotry.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022

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