How to Use intermarry in a Sentence

intermarry

verb

• The settlers and the native people seldom intermarried.
• One of the drivers of those changes is that Latinos and Asians are the most likely to intermarry.
  — NBC news, 15 Sep. 2022
• Many millions of Ukrainians and Russians have intermarried over the years.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 30 May 2017
• Tribes straddle modern borders, and many of the Gulf’s ruling clans intermarried.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• People once at violent odds with each other now tend the same fields, send their children to the same schools, sell goods to each other in the marketplace, and often intermarry.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2017
• The tribes of the Columbia Plateau traded and intermarried, sharing customs, religious beliefs, and language, through the common wealth of salmon.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Pew researchers note that 50 years ago, only 3 percent of the people in the country were intermarried — that is, had spouses of a different race or ethnicity.
  — Jesse J. Holland, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
• The most dramatic increases have been among African-Americans, though black men are much more likely than black women to intermarry.
  — Laura Meckler, WSJ, 18 May 2017
• When the Supreme Court decided the Lovings’ case, only 3 percent of newlyweds were intermarried.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• When the Supreme Court decided the Lovings' case, only 3 percent of newlyweds were intermarried.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2017
• Burger said further research is needed to see whether the women intermarried with the local population.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
• As with the Palestinians to the west, these Syrians have long intermarried with neighboring Jordanians.
  — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
• This suggests that the Thompson and Tillman families intermarried.
  — The Root, 26 Jan. 2018
• Spanish colonists reportedly married Taino wives, and other records say that Taino and escaped African slaves also intermarried and formed communities.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2018
• They are often forbidden from speaking during community meetings and are not allowed to intermarry with the freeborn.
  — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• The people work alongside each other, gather at the Paradise Square saloon, and occasionally intermarry.
  — Iris Fanger, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
• The story centers on twin sisters from a Louisiana town called Mallard, which is inhabited by Black residents who purposely intermarry so their children will be lighter-skinned.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2020
• Another reason Black women may intermarry at lower rates include stereotypes that hold that Black women are less attractive and feminine than White women.
  — Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Wedgwood was part of the famous Wedgwood family that intermarried with the Darwins, Galtons and Huxleys to produce generations of gifted scientists, artists, authors and composers.
  — Randy Alfred, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2009
• Minoans and Mycenaean Greeks would surely have spoken each other’s languages, may have intermarried and likely adopted and refashioned one another’s customs.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Minoans and Mycenaean Greeks would surely have spoken each other’s languages, may have intermarried and likely adopted and refashioned one another’s customs.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• That’s not entirely surprising; Spanish colonists reportedly married Taino wives, and other records say that Taino and escaped African slaves also intermarried and formed communities.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2018
• Central African Republic’s Muslims and Christians had lived in peace for generations, even intermarrying.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• But socially, the groups are mingling more—and increasingly intermarrying.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The prevalent view has thus been that invading Anatolian farmers intermarried with Europe’s original hunter-gatherers, and their genes became diluted with hunter-gatherers’ genes as the farmers spread northwest.
  — Jared Diamond, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Coincidentally or not, that was the moment when American Jews began to intermarry in great numbers, and the feeling of a very separate identity of American Jews was totally transformed.
  — Christopher Shea, Vox, 25 May 2018
• Douglas, whose mother wasn’t Jewish and who himself is intermarried, directed his award toward projects promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the Jewish world.
  — Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
• Given the royal family's propensity to intermarry, America's final British King is actual Harry's ancestor many times over.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2018
• But, ironically, society’s exclusion of chuetas proved to be the key to Judaism’s revival in Mallorca, historians say: because they were not allowed to intermarry freely with the Christian population, chuetas married among themselves.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• The Ethnic Industry America is increasingly becoming not so much a nonwhite nation as an assimilated, integrated, and intermarried country.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 16 July 2019

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