Example sentences for: slurs

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

  • For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.

  • Inglis gets fabulous mileage out of this, doing a brilliant "more in sorrow than in anger" act that casts him as too horrified even to repeat Hollings' slurs.

  • I have observed these slurs on television, radio, and print sources.

  • She taped Lewinsky to defend herself from the slurs of Clinton's lackeys.

  • 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.


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