How to Use bigotry in a Sentence

bigotry

noun
  • To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
    David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Grassley should be called out and corrected for his bigotry.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
  • They have been replaced by grievance, fear, bigotry, and hatred.
    Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024
  • Having a prom without any bigotry or even simply a fear of it is a big deal to Mujica.
    Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The textbooks taught in our schools are full of hate, such as bigotry toward the Baha’i faith and the promotion of terrorism.
    Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Judging by the numbers alone, Eugene would appear to be a hotbed of prejudice and bigotry.
    oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Hamburger may be right that the Oregon law was motivated by anti-Catholic bigotry.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Implied or direct accusations of bigotry are part of the current battles over increasing housing density at the state and local level.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Throughout history, sports have suffered through embarrassing incidents of public bigotry, but continued to expand their reach—and revenues.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The officials repeatedly reminded me that the First Amendment protects even the most abhorrent bigotry.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • No one group or faith owns a monopoly on the oldest form of bigotry.
    Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Trump was probably the best at that, serving up all the white supremacy, bigotry, and science denial the GOP base craves.
    Dean Obeidallah, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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