How to Use hate crime in a Sentence

hate crime

noun
  • The McMichaels and Bryan had pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
    — Russ Bynum, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The McMichaels and Bryan have pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
    — Russ Bynum, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The McMichaels and Bryan pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges in May.
    — Russ Bynum, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Last year, Jews were the target of more than half of the hate crimes in the city.
    — Jill Colvin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • This led some who live on the block to believe the fires were a hate crime.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Two of the teens’ charges had a hate crime enhancement.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The McMichaels and Bryan face federal hate crime charges in the killing.
    — Raisa Habersham, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The shooter of two Jewish men in L.A. agrees to plead guilty to hate crimes.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Many of the women who will rest at this site were victims of hate crimes.
    — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The alleged hate crime is the latest in a string of incidents in the city.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Intolerance and hate crimes are on the rise in the U.S. and beyond.
    — Keeley Teslik, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That’s more than half the total number of hate crimes against any and all groups.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • As of Thursday, the 25-year-old suspect has not been accused of a hate crime.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But amid the rise in hate crimes, a small group of activists has vowed to continue its work.
    — John Humphrey Agaba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
  • She was charged with assault as a hate crime, and other charges, the complaint states.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But even based on that complaint, the hate crime charge wouldn't stand, Yamahiro said.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2021
  • Rabbi Chanukov adamantly claims that this was a hate crime.
    — Matteo Cina, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And – and lunar new year, is this possibly a hate crime?
    — ABC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Lynch has not been charged in connection with that crime, nor has he been charged with a hate crime.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And so when those of us heard about this shooting, the first thing that came to our minds was, was this an anti-Asian hate crime?
    — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • He is also charged with hate crimes in the federal case.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • Georgia’s new hate crimes law doesn't provide for a stand-alone hate crime.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • Georgia’s new hate crimes law doesn’t provide for a stand-alone hate crime.
    — Kate Brumback, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2021
  • Georgia’s new hate crimes law doesn’t provide for a stand-alone hate crime.
    — Time, 29 July 2021
  • Gendron, 19, was indicted last week on the hate crime charges and weapons counts.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 July 2022
  • Over the last year New York City has witnessed an uptick in gun violence and hate crime.
    — Time, 10 July 2021
  • That’s how many hate crimes were reported in 2008, the last time hate crime numbers spiked.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • These killings have not yet been deemed hate crimes by officials.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Gould likens hate crime reporting to the #MeToo movement.
    — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Soliman is scheduled to appear in court this Friday for a hearing in which he will be asked to enter a plea on the hate crime charges.
    — Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025

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