How to Use multiracial in a Sentence

multiracial

adjective
  • Four are white, one is multiracial and two are Black, and their ages range from 20s to 50s.
    CBS News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Jim Crow era was not kind to Stevens and his ideals of a multiracial democracy.
    Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • About 18% was Black, 3% was Asian and 3% was multiracial.
    Natalia E. Contreras, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
  • According to the court, four are white, two are multiracial and three are Black, and their ages range from 20s to 50s.
    Fox News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • According to the court, five are white, two are multiracial and three are Black, and their ages range from 20s to 50s.
    Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti, Chron, 18 Mar. 2021
  • According to the court, six of the jurors were white, and six were Black or multiracial.
    Steve Karnowski, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Yet in that same photograph, the multiracial crowd links arms and sings.
    National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • About 10% were Asian, 7% were Black, and 9% were multiracial or other.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
  • Of the 15 jurors seated, nine are white, four are Black and two are multiracial, according to the court.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Four of the jurors are white, one is multiracial, one is Black and one is Hispanic.
    NBC News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Of the first 14 jurors seated, eight are white, four are Black and two are multiracial, according to the court.
    Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The rest went to multiracial students and students whose race was unknown.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Nine jurors are White, four of them are Black, and two jurors are multiracial.
    Ashlee Banks, Essence, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The Warnock campaign’s grassroots efforts helped to build the kind of multiracial coalition that would have made Dr. King proud.
    Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The Warnock team knew the path to the Senate would require a complex and fragile multiracial coalition.
    New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
  • On that sweltering summer day, the multiracial crowd hoisted signs, and protest songs filled the air.
    Donna M. Owens, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • There are some people that have a multiracial background that, based on their optics, can make a choice.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 17 Jan. 2023
  • One quarter of the white students and the multiracial students were assigned seats.
    NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The room filled up with a multiracial and multigenerational group of friends and fans.
    Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • As is customary for First Stage shows, the cast is diverse and multiracial.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Rodwell also hired a multiracial staff, which was a statement in itself at the time.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The Asian student told his father at least two of the teenagers — the most aggressive ones — were White, and the other two appeared to be multiracial.
    Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Five of the nine jurors identify as white, one as multiracial and three as Black, according to the court.
    Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Nine of the jurors self-identify as white, two as multiracial and four as Black, according to the court.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
  • There’s reason to believe that many new bonds were created in the wave of multiracial calls for change after the killing of George Floyd.
    Louis Porter Ii and Dane Smith, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • There’s never been a country music star quite like Brown, who is multiracial and a young dad at 27.
    Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The panel includes six men and nine women; nine of the jurors are white, four are Black, and two are multiracial, according to the court.
    Amy Forliti, ajc, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Nine are White, four are Black and two identify as multiracial.
    Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Mutt is a derogatory term (and can arguably be considered a slur) meant to insult people with biracial and multiracial identities.
    Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In the twentieth century, their lodestar was a multiracial egalitarian society.
    Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024

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