How to Use race riot in a Sentence

race riot

noun

• The courthouse was also the site of a race riot in 1946.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
• As the race riots burned out, the worst campus riot of the decade erupted.
  — Patrick J. Buchanan, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• In the blink of an eye, this protest becomes a full-scale race riot from out of the Civil Rights era.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
• He was even blamed for the race riots in 1919, in which more than three dozen people — black and white — were killed.
  — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Johnson’s win sparked race riots across the nation and footage of the bout was banned from being shown.
  — Panama Jackson, The Root, 22 Apr. 2018
• The amusement park on the edge of Louisville's Shawnee Park, which closed in the 1960s after race riots, was Joe's obsession.
  — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 22 Oct. 2019
• When a race riot in the 1930s forced other black families from Ste.
  — National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2016
• Hundreds of ethnic Chinese were killed in race riots in Kuala Lumpur in 1969.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 17 May 2018
• As a teenager, a race riot broke out at her high school in Troy, Alabama.
  — Brianna Keilar and Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• The debut episode began with the very real Tulsa race riot of 1921.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• In the days that followed, violent protests erupted and race riots ripped that city apart.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• One is about prostitutes, and one is about a race riot, and both low-down subjects get the big, salon-type treatment.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
• Hundreds have died since in terror attacks, reprisals and race riots, both Uighurs and Han Chinese.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• The following year, on Sept. 29, a race riot of thousands of people broke out, in which the new mayor was nearly hanged and a black man, Will Brown, was lynched.
  — Christine Pivovar, kansascity, 25 Aug. 2017
• Sadly, some of the issues that led to the race riot are still being confronted today.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• The government has been wary of ethnic tensions ever since deadly race riots in the 1960s.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Shortly thereafter, Richardson led a crew to New Bedford to cover a race riot there.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Two girls with very different lives and backgrounds must rely on each other to survive the race riot that takes over their town.
  — NBC News, 20 Feb. 2020
• Thousands of black Londoners gathered in protest, the beginning of race riots that rippled through the city.
  — Ellen Barry, The Seattle Times, 14 May 2018
• Black smoke billows from fires during the race riot of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  — Tiffany Crutcher, Time, 19 June 2020
• The courthouse is in Columbia, Tenn., where an infamous race riot took place in 1946.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Feliciano’s performance came before Game 5, Oct. 7 in Detroit, which the year before had been the site of race riots that killed dozens.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• The news touched off race riots in Washington, D.C., Chicago and dozens of other cities, causing damage that took decades to repair.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
• In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests, looting, and anger were boiling up in the streets of Boston, a city that has played host to both abolitionists and vicious race riots.
  — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Detroit had two genuine race riots during World War II.
  — Jake Blumgart, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
• The Sopranos’ story will be set against the backdrop of the 1967 Newark race riots, which were triggered when police beat a black cabdriver named John Smith.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• America, riven by race riots and the Vietnam War for years, had found a reason to come together.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
• Meanwhile, a race riot is brewing over the new family that has moved into the neighborhood.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The commemoration of the 1908 race riot comes weeks after the city found itself at the epicenter of calls for racial justice after a White sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman, in her home.
  — Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• Before the Civil War, the pro-slavery Democrats embraced new Americans, hustled them into the franchise, and turned an indulgent eye on their cheating at the polls, beating up abolitionists, or sparking race riots.
  — James Morone, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024