Example sentences for: homophobic

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

  • In its front-page editorial, the Sun , which used to have a homophobic reputation, claimed that the Brown affair had "set alarm bells ringing"--"[n]ot because people despise gays, or fear them, or wish to pillory them," but because "the public has a right to know how many homosexuals occupy positions of high power."

  • There is no doubt that this is due, at least in part, to the increasingly poisonous rhetoric of homophobic hatemongers such as Cameron and Bennett.

  • Just in case you feel too sorry for him, however, Barker is careful to include a homophobic monologue in which Michael complains about young women who waste their lives hanging out with effeminate males.

  • Maybe a third of the movie's gags are expressly gay or else trade on such expressions as "ass-ramming uncle-fucker," but the overall effect is the opposite of homophobic.

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.


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