Example sentences for: prejudice

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

  • The imbalance is especially notable given that other significant phenomena--such as the lingering effects of racial oppression in the (recent) past, new eruptions of anti-black prejudice, and so-called "rational" racial discrimination (by which people, without malevolent intent, use black skin as a negative cue)--are relegated to the far margins of discussion.

  • 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.

  • The most ambitious response is to attack the whole "prejudice" in favor of beauty.

  • I saw equally severe prejudice against people of darker skin, often including Negroes, by non-Whites in two major Asian countries in which I worked (1968-70, 1978-83) and in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries in which I worked (1972-74).

  • Actually, the purported prejudice is among dog owners, not dogs.


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