Example sentences for: slurs

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

  • This by no means exhausts the store of sleeping slurs that once formed an 'ard core of popular insult.

  • He rushes, slurs, put the right emphasis on the wrong words, and twists his face up into a half-smirk that distracts you from the message.

  • Felsenthal and Katharine both report that Phil assumed Agnes' role as bully and emotional abuser, but only the biographer writes that as Phil lost his mind, he taunted his half-Jewish wife with anti-Semitic slurs.

  • The Los Angeles Times cited a Holocaust historian's warnings that ethnic slurs can lead to violence, and the director of the Anti-Defamation League blamed the FBI and the Justice Department for allowing civil liberties concerns to limit their monitoring of hate groups.

  • But Scots have long been inured to such slurs.


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