How to Use bigotry in a Sentence
bigotry
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There's a reason why so many stars stay silent in the face of bigotry.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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His parents knew bigotry was wrong.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
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His brand of hatred and bigotry goes against what our country stands for.
—Ciara Nugent, Time, 13 July 2018
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Parts of its past are marred by injustice, avarice and bigotry.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
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That not even Lincoln could end bigotry.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
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She was called racial slurs and faced hateful bigotry from her classmates.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
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The battle against this type of bigotry is fought, in part, on this level.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 May 2021
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Through their essays, the students stand up and speak out against bias and bigotry.
—Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
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No one group or faith owns a monopoly on the oldest form of bigotry.
—Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
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To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
—David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
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Rosenberg felt that some of these messages crossed the line into bigotry.
—Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
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The show mostly relies on an on-the-nose screwball bigotry.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
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If more of us would look for the common good for all of us, hate and bigotry would diminish.
—Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
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The statement’s open bigotry is jarring.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
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Race is one of the core things utilized by bad actors to fuel hatred and bigotry.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
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The real battle here is in turning ourselves away from the lure of bigotry and greed.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
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So, yes, this is in part a story about bigotry and the divisive nature of fear.
—Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2020
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Not for the word as used in bigotry, but when white people are listing to music that uses it.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 25 May 2018
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As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022
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Nick, first buy a dictionary and then take a few courses in logic and the evils of bigotry.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
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West Virginia has seen its share of anti-Semitism and bigotry.
—Larry Luxner, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2020
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Hayley Williams is drawing a line in the sand against bigotry in her fanbase.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
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Foxx’s salty reading of Bunker-style bigotry struck a chord, and the show had a healthy six-season run.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
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One on antisemitism and hatred and bigotry, and on that, that’s a black and white issue.
—ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
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The family achieved success in the face of bigotry, Noel said.
—Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
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They are filled with hateful bigotry and toxic and dangerous lies.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
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But if that were the case, her years of bigotry would have been enough to prevent her show from being revived in the first place.
—Brittany Packnett, The Cut, 30 May 2018
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Jackson has not been charged with a hate crime, but Solis believes his killing stemmed from bigotry.
—Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
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That in no way justifies the homophobia or bigotry in the old blog posts.
—German Lopez, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
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Now these concepts have been turned on their head, and bigotry against Jews has been largely ignored by these groups.
—Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025
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