Example sentences for: coloureds

How can you use “coloureds” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In my youth the acceptable term for Blacks was Negroes or Coloureds . Coloured seems to have come to North America from South Africa, where it actually refers to mulattoes, or descendants of mixed race.

  • The Coloureds, fathered by whites upon Hottentots, are poor and therefore good, naturally qualified by their lack of book-learning to fix a broken gadget or a leaky faucet.

  • With the population divided into Whites, Coloureds and Blacks, how am I to know that Slegs isn't another race group?


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