How to Use racial in a Sentence

racial

adjective
  • There was racial tension on campus.
  • What is your racial identity?
  • The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The main point of our book was to go deeper than the weeds, to the very roots of racial bias.
    Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Closing the racial wealth gap is at the top of SheaMoisture’s Christmas list this year.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Blue chip brands also backed the racial justice protests that followed the killing of George Floyd.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Kueper denied the incident, including the use of the racial slur.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Why is The North Face running a racial inclusion course?
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The death rates on the job by race are in stark contrast with the racial breakdown of the American workforce.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • As a result, the country has retained one of the world’s highest racial wealth gaps.
    James D. Long, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Once inside, the officers mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.
    CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • So, yes, the zoot suit and the pachuco style have roots in substantive racial histories.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • To his knowledge, none of them reported the use of a racial slur to a supervisor.
    Tara Bannow Reprints, STAT, 11 June 2024
  • The spirit of racial unity would be severely tested in the next two years when more than 2,000 Black men came to Camp Bowie to train.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 June 2024
  • The student code of conduct does not specifically list the use of racial slurs or hate speech as an offense.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the hate in our country has crescendoed on a racial front, a political front, and now with the war in Gaza from an ethnic front.
    John Shumway, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The arrests sparked nationwide protests and prompted Starbucks to close some of its stores for a day for racial bias training.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There must be some sort of racial reckoning for the Black community in Louisville.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The increase in sadness and hopelessness was reported across all racial groups over the past decade.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Further, 45% say the fear of racial stereotypes almost stopped them from starting their business.
    Rohit Arora, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In much of the country, not everywhere, racial violence and the threat of violence had seemed to be a memory of the past.
    James McCartney, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2024
  • The group says Nasdaq's rules amount to an unlawful racial and gender quota.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • More evidence supports the use of racial slurs when the team was walking back from dinner, the documents said.
    Alexandra Duggan, Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2024
  • The trolley problem — about a racial slur — does not actually use the racial slur in question, as that’s simply a bridge too far.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Changes to push back against the violence should be viewed through a lens of racial equity, speakers said Thursday.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The siblings are played by actors of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, whereas all seven siblings are white in the books.
    Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The push to close the gender and racial wage gaps in Massachusetts is kicking into high gear on Beacon Hill.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • Fujian is the closest Chinese province to the island of Taiwan and shares a range of cultural, ethnic, and racial similarities with the majority of Taiwanese citizens.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Additionally, Black women have the lowest five-year relative breast cancer survival rate compared to all other racial/ethnic groups for every stage of diagnosis and every breast cancer subtype.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 16 Oct. 2024

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