How to Use stereotype in a Sentence

stereotype

1 of 2 verb
Definition of stereotypenext
Synonyms for stereotypenext
  • It's not fair to stereotype a whole group of people based on one person you don't like.
  • Movies have stereotyped the domineering mother-in-law ad nauseam.
  • Both sides felt pigeonholed and stereotyped over the years.
    — Lisa Rosen, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
  • We are trained to avoid stereotyping patients in any way.
    — Jason Han, Philly.com, 15 May 2018
  • Trying to reclaim a part of themselves that has been shunned and stereotyped.
    — al, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The show has, in the past, made efforts to avoid stereotyping its villains.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
  • Haughton and Morris contend he was stereotyped because of his race.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Take Bakersfield, a city that has long been stereotyped as a place of smog and economic malaise.
    — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Now, that's not to say that all men are inherently bad at these household tasks or to stereotype them that way.
    — Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 4 Apr. 2017
  • With the amount of work moms tend to shoulder at home, dads get a bad rap in the parenting department and are often stereotyped as the fun or lazy one.
    — Elyse Roth, Redbook, 17 May 2017
  • But labels also can be weaponized to stereotype and criticize.
    — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The other black character is stereotyped in a different way.
    — Jane Hu, New Republic, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The American mainstream often stereotypes classical fans as stodgy and stuck in the past.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 13 July 2018
  • The fear of how it could be used to stereotype Black men has resulted in it being analyzed as a proxy war first, a work of art second.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2021
  • So why not watch a show that celebrates immigrants instead of stereotyping them?
    — Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • The woman didn’t feel comfortable with it, and Kerr was afraid that because the woman was black, she would be stereotyped.
    — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Trends in delaying adulthood play out across the decades and lead people to stereotype entire generations.
    — Alexis Redding, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Any detractors would have had a difficult time stereotyping him.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • That may be because some Chileans stereotype Colombians as drug-dealers.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Some friends insisted that those weren’t really stereotypes but more or less a truth about Russians.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a tendency to stereotype people as being more or less dangerous.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • There’s a tendency to stereotype people as being more or less dangerous.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • Just for subscribers: Hollywood has stereotyped Arabs for decades.
    — USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • The trend is even spilling over to cruises, once stereotyped as weight-gaining vacations with bottomless buffets.
    — Kelli Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Italian cinema often gets stereotyped as being all mafia movies.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • Black quarterbacks were negatively stereotyped for a long time in the NFL.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • For years they were stereotyped as convenience-store owners and overachieving children.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • But in the decades that followed, bans were imposed on cruising by cities and counties that stereotyped lowriders as being associated with crime and gangs.
    — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Tokyoites often stereotype the Osaka-jin style as laden in leopard print and glitter.
    — Misty White Sidell | Wwd, latimes.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • To me, [that] idea is just as condescending and reductive as stereotyping them in a negative way.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
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stereotype

2 of 2 noun
  • There are still a lot of stereotypes left over from the past.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • That was a bit of this stereotype of the Asian with a slide rule.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Brown skin could be cloaked in soot and stereotype or in learned airs.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • When is the last time a stereotype popped into your mind?
    — Keith Payne, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
  • You were sent here to destroy stereotypes & blaze the trail for all the have nots.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There's some truth to the teenage stereotype of risk taking.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Chin takes a cleaver to the stereotype of the submissive Asian girl.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 25 May 2021
  • The portrait asks us to see him as a person, not a stereotype.
    — John Edwin Mason, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
  • But look at the wider French business landscape and the stereotype is out of date.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The play becomes a clash of social stereotypes, played for easy laughs.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Nobody is looking to be the fill-in-the-blank stereotype on the panel.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Many of the ads seem to target in accordance with stereotypes.
    — Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2018
  • It’s one thing to know the old stereotype that a Black man has to be twice as good to get half the chance.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The workshop also addressed the stereotype that most gamers are male.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The stereotypes of women in storytelling have changed a lot.
    — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The stereotype that women are drawn to shoes like moths to a flame rings true—at least for this woman.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 July 2022
  • There were stereotypes that weighed heavily on him as a young black man.
    — Chris Hays, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Those are the stereotypes that come from lack of information.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Liza had to lie her way around stereotypes to fit the publishing landscape.
    — Megan Angelo, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Your résumé doesn’t look like a checklist of stereotypes.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Yes, that stereotype about older folks putting on sweaters in a heat wave is often true.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
  • But as with most stereotypes, there is a grain of truth to the notion that crypto involves some boy math.
    — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Also here’s one that began life as a racist stereotype.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
  • But, the fact is, this is a stereotype of people who consume cannabis.
    — Harrison Wise, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2021
  • This stereotype of a self-journey is, like, doing a bunch of things.
    — Elinor Carucci, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Yet despite this stereotype, there are many other types of artists.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2019
  • This deck box from Suncast breaks the stereotype with a stylish design.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Jules wants to break the stereotype that blind people can't do what sighted people can do.
    — Genevieve Shaw Brown, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • You’re often a flat stereotype of a black woman, a white gay man, or a brunette.
    — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 11 July 2019
  • As far as stereotypes go, rock stars aren’t supposed to be good parents.
    — Ilana Kaplan, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023

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