How to Use biracial in a Sentence

biracial

adjective
  • And there weren’t a ton of biracial people with my hair and my eyes on TV.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
  • Britain’s not racist, but the biracial duchess got bullied out.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 July 2021
  • Caitlin Keryc, of New York City, has a 4-year-old daughter who is biracial.
    The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The biracial Noah is the first host of color to win in this category.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In a highly biracial move, Latto rolled up to the Bronx with a convoy of Sedans.
    Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Markle is biracial and has a black mother and white father.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2019
  • Jo Davis is the mother of biracial children and says the anxiety plagues her just the same.
    Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The story explores the mystery behind the tragedy and the ideas of race and class through the lens of a biracial character.
    Bethia Kwak, NBC News, 12 June 2017
  • Your co-worker might be white, but her son might be biracial.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • And of the eight WilmerHale lawyers who have argued before the court since the 2017 term, three are women and two are biracial.
    Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Last month, an 8-year old boy who is biracial like me was hanged from a tree by white teens in New Hampshire.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Moore, who is biracial, grew up in Ullin, a small town about 20 minutes south of Anna.
    Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 12 June 2020
  • Carey shared with Markle about her own struggles fitting in as a biracial young girl.
    Tre'vaughn Howard, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The family, which has lived in Allen since 2011 and is biracial, planned to move to a different house in the city, Hawkins Sr. said.
    Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Wendy Scott showed up with her 5-year-old twins — a boy and a girl — who are biracial and raised by lesbian mothers.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Eaves, who's biracial, was adopted and grew up in an all-Black household.
    Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2021
  • Markle is biracial, with a black mother and white father.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Taylor, who is Black and biracial, already felt afraid of the police.
    Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • One was a white woman married to a Black man with a biracial daughter.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Of the 28 students in my third-grade class, seven were either white or biracial.
    James E. Causey, jsonline.com, 9 June 2017
  • The boy, who is biracial, was treated in the hospital and released, the police said.
    Christine Hauser and Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Her parents were aware that as a biracial child, Markle might face challenges.
    CBS News, 19 May 2018
  • Kane Brown, who is biracial, some songwriters refuse to write with him.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 9 June 2020
  • Markle, whose mother is black and father is white, may not be the first biracial royal.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 19 May 2018
  • There’s no ignoring the elephant in the room — Meghan is a biracial Black woman.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Raul, who is biracial, is described as 3 feet tall, weighing 38 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes.
    Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Growing up as a biracial child in Los Angeles taught me a lot.
    De Los Staff, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • His father John was a free man; his mother was biracial.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023
  • It should be noted that much has been made about the biracial Murry family, who are white in the book.
    Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • So my grandmother’s great-grandparents were…one of them was a biracial woman—half-white—and then the plantation owner’s son.
    Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024

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