How to Use N-word in a Sentence

N-word

noun
  • Oh yeah, the other episode where Larry says the N-word a bunch.
    Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The Sun publishes a video of Bieber saying the N-word while telling a joke.
    Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Kerr, who is Black, alleged that a white colleague called him the N-word.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Workers of color say they were called the N-word and saw swastikas painted on the bathroom.
    Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • If you or your parents were born in Africa or in the Caribbean, are you allowed to say the N-word?
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 20 June 2023
  • And in 2022, a neighbor of his almost ran over one of Dunn’s son with his truck after calling them the N-word.
    Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Students who were watching called out the male student for pushing the girl first and using the N-word against her.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In 2018, houseguest Kaitlyn Herman used the N-word when quoting a Drake song.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Cameras placed in the home of Michaela and Connie Pineda showed her painting N-word and a swastika in their driveway.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 2023
  • He was embroiled in some controversy when he was caught on video saying the N-word.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Arie also called attention to Rogan using the N-word on the podcast.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In May of 2020, the reality star came under fire for using the N-word in an Instagram video.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Ten days after the gun allegation, Addison told her mother that the same classmate had touched her and called her the N-word.
    James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The student, Mary Walton, recorded the teacher, whom the school district has not publicly identified, using the N-word twice in a video that lasts about one minute.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • Wallen has made his return to the music scene following the February 2021 video in which he was heard yelling the N-word and other expletives.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Many return as mentors, showing others how to pitch a tent, build a campfire and explain there’s no profanity or use of the N-word.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The call for resignation comes about a week after a video showing multiple students spelling out the N-word and saying it aloud in a classroom at the high school.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At one excruciating and plot-shifting point, Kwabena finds himself at a karaoke session with his all-white co-workers singing along in unison to the N-word.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This was also the latest controversy in the world of country music after Morgan Wallen faced backlash in 2021 when he was caught on video saying the N-word.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 July 2023
  • Nothing seems off limits when Walt takes an offensive stage name featuring the N-word (which becomes a significant part of the plot).
    Stephen Saito, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
  • At the start of season 25, houseguest Luke Valentine got eliminated for using the N-word while talking to a group of fellow competitors.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In several episodes Cubas also casually used the N-word.
    Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media and Curtis Gilbert, American Public Media, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
  • Other attendees in Sánchez's company openly used the N-word.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Efforts originating from the left, Meehan told me, often involve protests against white authors using the N-word.
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Students at the virtually all-white suburban school bullied the brothers and used racial slurs against them, including the N-word, Jones-Grisham said.
    Gina Barton, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2023
  • What some conservatives are asking for, on the other hand, is a robot that will regurgitate falsehoods, conform to their more extreme views, and say the N-word.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Utah athletics officials have said that while the basketball team, band members and cheerleaders were going out to dinner on the night of March 21, a driver revved their engine and yelled the N-word at the group.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Adin Ross, for his part, is known to cavort with misogynistic creators like Andrew Tate and has expressed countless right-leaning views on his stream, in addition to dropping the N-word a few times.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This is a flagrantly racist town: the N-word flies almost casually throughout the text of the play, the better to show a kind of rattlesnake viciousness in the town’s citizens, and their saturation in the culture of Jim Crow.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The incident, captured on camera, shows the boy using racial slurs, calling the Black student the N-word before physically assaulting her.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023

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