Example sentences for: negroes

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

  • A 1973 Brown and Williamson document quoted speaks of the possibility that "Kool will cover the top 25 markets in terms of absolute Negroes."

  • Colored (man, woman, person, people , etc.) all seemed quite satisfactory and have been used by Negroes to refer to themselves.

  • Unfamiliar reporters prowled with clipboards and camera equipment, wrote volunteer Sally Belfrage, who noted that "for Negroes there hardly seemed to be anyone who wasn't rushing around looking for King, cooking for King, talking of King as if they couldn't find him, and thinking of him as if there was no one to talk to."

  • Griffith raised "crosscutting" to an art in his racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation , in which he jumped back and forth between "renegade Negroes" preparing to ravish a white maiden and Ku Klux Klanners galloping chivalrously to her aid.

  • '' Some Central Pointers lived as negroes at home but crossed the line to seize white privileges just an hour or two away in Richmond, Va.


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