How to Use interracial in a Sentence
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Chester Tam wrote the script and is attached to direct the interracial love story inspired by his life.
— Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019 -
Other fliers warned of harm from interracial dating, Phillips recalled.
— Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019 -
Doomed interracial relationships are the source of many of the stories’ melancholy.
— Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 June 2019 -
The interracial slum was razed and mapped into homogeneous zones of absolute difference.
— Longreads, 20 July 2019 -
The show focused less on interracial dynamics than on the tensions inherent in the Jeffersons’ changed class status.
— Joanna Scutts, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2019 -
At the time in some areas of the USA, interracial boxing was banned.
— Ben Morse, CNN, 3 July 2020 -
The song tells the tale interracial love affair between a white man and a black woman that doesn’t go over well.
— Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021 -
There was a time when interracial couples and their children had to hide in shame.
— John Blake, CNN, 3 July 2022 -
The bill would also protect interracial marriages; the Supreme Court struck down state laws against such unions in a 1967 case.
— New York Times, 20 July 2022 -
Maybe this interracial-love fetish would have jelled better in the Obama era.
— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020 -
The screenplay by Jake Crane and Jonathan Stewart avoids most of the pitfalls of interracial friendship movies.
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022 -
Their union was a rare event — the Sethmans are an interracial couple.
— Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2020 -
It’s named for Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple at the center of the ruling.
— Ryan Murphy, Washington Post, 11 July 2020 -
For interracial couples in the US, the right to marry has been recognized much longer.
— Sara Burnett, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2022 -
In the 1940s, Greenwood was a member of an interracial group that used lawsuits and other means to force restaurants and shops to serve blacks.
— USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019 -
The song dealt with a teenage interracial relationship, a still-taboo subject at the time.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022 -
The couple married in 1971, becoming one of the first interracial marriages in the city.
— Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021 -
There just happens to be a gay couple at the center, an interracial gay couple at that.
— Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2021 -
The film was a massive success and featured an interracial couple on screen, pushing the boundaries at the time.
— Susan Welsh, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2021 -
But more than that, my parents — an interracial couple — were martial artists, and so kung fu movies feel like home.
— Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021 -
This is one of the few allusions to the interracial composition of the family with Jake, who is white, and Kyra, who is Black.
— ELLE, 5 Mar. 2022 -
The ad showcased an interracial couple where the woman is Black.
— Sonia Thompson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 -
The same could likely be said for many interracial marriages.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023 -
Funt is talking to a man who’s waiting for a bus to arrive when an interracial couple start making out next to them.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022 -
James Kirk, a moment that marked one of the first interracial kisses on television.
— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022 -
The film was the first depiction of an interracial relationship in a British film, and marked the first leading role for a Black actor in a mainstream movie in the country.
— Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 4 July 2020 -
Yes, the Freedom Riders were men and women and also an interracial group.
— al, 4 May 2021 -
In the story, a woman named Rena mourns the loss of her sister against the rom-com backdrop of a missing groom, a road trip and an interracial wedding party hookup.
— Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021 -
In one sense, race is a factor, given that Bobbie is now played by a Black woman and several of the couples are cast as interracial.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024 -
Adherents of the theory not only justify exclusion and violence against people of color but blame women for interracial unions or not having enough children.
— Linda Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2024
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