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Example sentences for: stereotype
How can you use “stereotype” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Try as he might, Quayle couldn't get anyone to take him seriously as a presidential candidate, because all that the national press corps and the national joke-writing corps wanted from him was material that confirmed his dumbbell stereotype.
They go too far, though, when they attack “I lost my job” in place of “They fired me” on the grounds that such phrasing contributes to “the harmful stereotype of `woman as victim.
Not surprisingly, Cook's book proved controversial, and she eventually responded indignantly to her critics in The Nation : "Why are so many wedded to a stereotype of a frigid, sublimating, forever lonely Eleanor Roosevelt?"
Indeed, it's quite possible that in the next century the terms "cliché" and "stereotype" will be supplanted by new terms derived from the Internet.
Doesn't this suggest that tourists are simply getting better at going places, and that it's time to dispense with the stereotype that tourists are uncouth, unchic, and generally unbearable?