Example sentences for: stereotype

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

  • 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?

  • We are, the stereotype has it, lousy fighters, and this rankles.

  • There are many African town names that contribute to this linguistic stereotype, places such as Zongo, Zumbo, Zawi, Zaria, Kolwezi, Mulobezi, Solwezi, Ulvinza, Mazabuka, Mwanza, Ngunza, Nzeto, Nyunza , and many others.

  • Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)

  • However, with a vibrant grassroots culture and the growing confidence of an independent nation, it defies the advertising stereotype of the “deserted island. ”


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