Example sentences for: miscegenation

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

  • This orgy of miscegenation has not yet brought the racial harmony for which Podhoretz longed.

  • President Abraham Lincoln's detractors charged him in the 1864 presidential campaign with promoting the mongrelization of the races (that's where the coinage "miscegenation," which now sounds racist, comes from).

  • And, in the "it may not sound like progress but it is" department, Utah residents overturned a 102-year-old law limiting the property rights of married women, and South Carolinians struck the miscegenation ban from the state constitution.

  • Jefferson's claim of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence is, to Malcolm, an egregious example of miscegenation, where a Latin word is joined to an Anglo-Saxon prefix.

  • This miscegenation is of course what has always happened when people comfortable in two languages use them freely in their daily affairs.


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