Example sentences for: prejudice

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

  • At one point, Joe muses that Dirac's early theory of quantum electrodynamics was slow to gain acceptance because it was aesthetically unappealing--"Acceptance withheld on grounds of ugliness"--and this phrase could well serve as the novel's ironic motto, for its plot is littered with examples of this prejudice.

  • I trust that I shall be forgiven for skimming over the Usage chapter, partly because much of it is cut and dried and the parts that are not confuse the issue of avoiding prejudice with political correctness, a subject that gives me dyspepsia.

  • Applebome's discussion of South Carolina probes the dirty secret behind Dixie's stunning rise from poverty: its rabid anti-unionism, or what one historian calls "the South's most respectable prejudice."

  • Hoping to encourage what may be a nascent trend toward rationalism, Chatterbox hereby challenges other religions to step forward and discard outdated doctrines, such as, oh, papal infallibility, or Judaism's silly prejudice against crabcakes and Lobster Thermidor.

  • As I suggested above, they should not be paid much heed, being either the result of misconception, ignorance, lack of understanding, just plain bigotry and prejudice, or—surely later on during the dictionary controversy of the 1960s—the mere business of parroting others' Webster -bashing.


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