How to Use bigotry in a Sentence

bigotry

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  • In truth, such people’s bigotry is always fully loaded.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • What hadn't struck me, in my capacity as a white guy from the suburbs, is that some people view the film and its commemoration as raw bigotry.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
  • Their parody of ceremony became the real thing, shot through with bigotry and violence.
    — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • Also stands up against rise in bigotry, without naming any names … hang on, Gaga and Liza freaking Minnelli?!?
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • But Jenkins, and many like her, want to move the transgender-in-sports debate from one about fairness and competition to one about bigotry and inclusiveness.
    — Jenna Stocker, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
  • There has long been, and still is, substantial bigotry directed at transgender individuals.
    — Ana Goñi-Lessan, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
  • For much of its history, the Democratic Party was a vehicle for segregation and racial bigotry.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The two had both moved from the United States to France in their young adult years in hopes of escaping bigotry and violence, a fact that was to support the spine of the story.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 May 2022
  • The repairing of the cracked ceramic lotus, a Japanese art known as kintsugi, was a symbol of the collective effort to heal the wounds of religious bigotry.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • To add insult to injury, both of these writers often spoke out against bigotry.
    — Anjali Enjeti, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • 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

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