Example sentences for: perpetuate

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

  • Identify obstacles within our legal services community that cause and/or perpetuate bias, oppression, and unfairness.

  • Nor did they "perpetuate the massacre" there.

  • Language is viewed not only as the product but the shaper of culture and as such is able to perpetuate or discourage discrimination or oppression.

  • To call the Scots tongue Doric (meaning broad or rustic) is to perpetuate the notion that it is the speech of uneducated country folk, an idea still endorsed by snobbish anglophiles in Scotland.

  • The long-heralded teen-sex comedy has already been dubbed Porky's 2000 , but it's worth remembering that Porky's (1981) was a piece of sexist junk, and that both American Pie and the vastly superior There's Something About Mary (1998) dramatize adolescent sexual panic in ways that seem more likely to relieve than to perpetuate it.


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