How to Use stereotype in a Sentence

stereotype

1 of 2 verb

• It's not fair to stereotype a whole group of people based on one person you don't like.
• Movies have stereotyped the domineering mother-in-law ad nauseam.
• The show has, in the past, made efforts to avoid stereotyping its villains.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
• Both sides felt pigeonholed and stereotyped over the years.
  — Lisa Rosen, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• Since the 2016 election, many folks have tried to stereotype the coasts as the places living in their own bubbles.
  — NBC News, 20 May 2018
• Not to stereotype or be an ageist, but the profile pictures for most of the 25-year-olds had one thing in common: abs.
  — Jennifer Vally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Trying to reclaim a part of themselves that has been shunned and stereotyped.
  — al, 17 Jan. 2020
• We are trained to avoid stereotyping patients in any way.
  — Jason Han, Philly.com, 15 May 2018
• At first glance, Jo’s Modern Thai can be easy to stereotype as a dime-a-dozen Asian fusion restaurant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• Take Bakersfield, a city that has long been stereotyped as a place of smog and economic malaise.
  — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• Haughton and Morris contend he was stereotyped because of his race.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• The woman didn’t feel comfortable with it, and Kerr was afraid that because the woman was black, she would be stereotyped.
  — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Now, that's not to say that all men are inherently bad at these household tasks or to stereotype them that way.
  — Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 4 Apr. 2017
• With the amount of work moms tend to shoulder at home, dads get a bad rap in the parenting department and are often stereotyped as the fun or lazy one.
  — Elyse Roth, Redbook, 17 May 2017
• The fear of how it could be used to stereotype Black men has resulted in it being analyzed as a proxy war first, a work of art second.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2021
• The American mainstream often stereotypes classical fans as stodgy and stuck in the past.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 13 July 2018
• Still, for decades Canadian whisky has been stereotyped the same way Canada has been: as unassuming, a bit bland and averse to change.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• That may be because some Chileans stereotype Colombians as drug-dealers.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Black quarterbacks were negatively stereotyped for a long time in the NFL.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2023
• Just for subscribers: Hollywood has stereotyped Arabs for decades.
  — USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• For decades, oil-rich Venezuelans were stereotyped as wealthy and haughty, an impression that feeds the current dynamic.
  — Ezra Fieser, Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Open relationships aren’t a new concept but they’re still often stereotyped and taboo to some.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
• Heck, even the actors who played these parts in both the Off-Broadway run and William Friedkin’s 1970 film adaptation were stereotyped afterwards.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2018
• Some friends insisted that those weren’t really stereotypes but more or less a truth about Russians.
  — Ayşegül Savaş, Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
• The latest Roseanne episode features a plotline in which the star and the Conner family end up stereotyping their Muslim neighbors.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• People tend to stereotype Malcolm X and he’s seen as just a radical rabble rouser.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2018
• But labels also can be weaponized to stereotype and criticize.
  — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2022
• The other black character is stereotyped in a different way.
  — Jane Hu, New Republic, 18 Jan. 2018
• Tokyoites often stereotype the Osaka-jin style as laden in leopard print and glitter.
  — Misty White Sidell | Wwd, latimes.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• For example, 46% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats say that news coverage largely stereotyped Black people, Pew said.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023

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stereotype

2 of 2 noun

• That was a bit of this stereotype of the Asian with a slide rule.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• There are still a lot of stereotypes left over from the past.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• You were sent here to destroy stereotypes & blaze the trail for all the have nots.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
• It’s one thing to know the old stereotype that a Black man has to be twice as good to get half the chance.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2020
• Chin takes a cleaver to the stereotype of the submissive Asian girl.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 25 May 2021
• Brown skin could be cloaked in soot and stereotype or in learned airs.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Nobody is looking to be the fill-in-the-blank stereotype on the panel.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2018
• There's some truth to the teenage stereotype of risk taking.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 24 Aug. 2020
• When is the last time a stereotype popped into your mind?
  — Keith Payne, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• But don’t be fooled: The plot is trite; the cast, a basketful of stereotypes.
  — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• But look at the wider French business landscape and the stereotype is out of date.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
• The portrait asks us to see him as a person, not a stereotype.
  — John Edwin Mason, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• The play becomes a clash of social stereotypes, played for easy laughs.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• But, the fact is, this is a stereotype of people who consume cannabis.
  — Harrison Wise, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2021
• The stereotype that women are drawn to shoes like moths to a flame rings true—at least for this woman.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 July 2022
• That’s the teeth of [my] work, this attempt at erasing that stereotype, that pain, that anger, that rage.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• This deck box from Suncast breaks the stereotype with a stylish design.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• This stereotype of a self-journey is, like, doing a bunch of things.
  — Elinor Carucci, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• You’re often a flat stereotype of a black woman, a white gay man, or a brunette.
  — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 11 July 2019
• Can tvg silence the doubters and dispel the Evil Empire stereotype?
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 6 Mar. 2023
• Reid’s Guy, aflame with courageous strength, nobly steers clear of stereotype.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Many of the ads seem to target in accordance with stereotypes.
  — Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2018
• So the stereotype about older adults not being tech-savvy does not apply — at least in the case of Ken.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The workshop also addressed the stereotype that most gamers are male.
  — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
• But as with most stereotypes, there is a grain of truth to the notion that crypto involves some boy math.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Sep. 2023
• Contrary to stereotypes, much of Gen Z is doing just fine.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Yes, that stereotype about older folks putting on sweaters in a heat wave is often true.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
• The stereotypes of women in storytelling have changed a lot.
  — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 8 Dec. 2017
• Disillusion with work—or as some may see it, a work-shy tendency—isn’t a fair stereotype to brand across all young talent, the founders feel.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• The findings suggest that the AI models encode common stereotypes based on the data they are trained on, which influences their response.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024