Example sentences for: negro

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

  • “Burned through several pages was the scorched imprint of the padre’s hand, La Mano Negro.”

  • 18 Sunrise Boulevard --A young screenwriter (James Dean) falls under the spell of a disturbingly sexually precocious child movie star (Shirley Temple) who lives alone in her Hollywood mansion with a dead monkey and an ancient tap-dancing Negro butler.

  • It appears that just when we were finally settling down to remember that certain people want to be called black (rather than colored or Negro ), they change their minds and now want to be called “African Americans,” while those who are not yellow or red or some other color are to be termed “non-African-American” or “non-American-Indian.”

  • In 1963, Time named him Man of the Year, praising his leadership in the Birmingham desegregation protests that made him "the unchallenged voice of the Negro people--and the disquieting conscience of the whites."

  • Defending the cause of "Ebonics," Professor Ron Emmons of Los Angeles City College asserts, among other fancies, that "Black English is in Negro spirituals ('Dat Ole Man River,' 'Ah Got Shoes')."


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