Example sentences for: prejudices

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

  • Therefore, "we should think about" whether to "accept the existing prejudices and then try to eugenically manipulate them" or to transcend those prejudices.

  • But to remind its masters that it can still bite--and reinforce conservative prejudices that it's pink--PBS periodically aired blasphemous dramas ( Steambath , 1973), Mao-symp travelogues (Shirley MacLaine's The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir , 1975), politically provocative docudramas ( Death of a Princess , 1980), lefty attacks on agribiz ( Hungry for Profit , 1985), homoerotica ( Tongues Untied , 1991), and brazen assaults on logical thinking ( The Panama Deception , 1992).

  • I follow sports from the crime angle--usually the first I hear about some celebrated athlete is that he's been charged with rape, domestic violence, child abuse or, like Green Bay Packer Reggie Whatsisname, is sharing his "Christian" homophobic racist prejudices with the public.

  • In the course of his treatment of these topics, the author provides a wealth of information that answers numerous questions (and confronts many of the prejudices) that many people have about language:

  • "It is a terrible sign of intellectual and religious confusion," carped Elliott Abrams, author of Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America . "Each of these religions must remain an immutable hodgepodge of customs, superstitions, and prejudices," he did not add.


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