How to Use prejudice in a Sentence

prejudice

1 of 2 noun

• He has a prejudice against fast-food restaurants.
• We tend to make these kinds of decisions according to our own prejudices.
• The organization fights against racial prejudice.
• But the pains of prejudice persist to this day — in the church and the wider culture.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• The risk of unfair prejudice was too great, the court said.
  — Fox News, 10 May 2021
• There is no room in this world for any kind of prejudice.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
• Under the law, a claim of prejudice against the judge must be made.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• The young priest doesn’t show any such prejudice at first.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 May 2022
• Thanks to all that fought for this, braving the worst sort of prejudice.
  — Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• And the question of racial prejudice is very powerful in the film.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• Russia and the native prejudices of the deplorables get some of it as well.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• But the deep well of prejudice against black hair is just beginning to be drained.
  — Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Some of the early posters harnessed the power of prejudice.
  — Wendy Melillo, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
• But that's only one of the food prejudices Chang has his eye on.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 3 May 2018
• There was such a stigma and a prejudice against gay people.
  — Phillip Picardi, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2020
• And the oldest and most entrenched prejudice was against women and their work.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
• If the state can't find the lawyers, the charges should all be dismissed with prejudice, the lawsuit says.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
• Dismissal with prejudice means the case cannot be refiled.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• Such good humor is a salve to the novel’s abiding tragedy of loss and prejudice.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• In the end, both men discovered that their prejudices blinded them to truth.
  — Walter Mosley, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• The suit was dismissed with prejudice, which means Moore cannot refile the suit.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2021
• Growing up in an era of widespread prejudice, some stayed in the closet.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
• But even exceptions to the rule could be stymied by gender prejudice.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
• The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they can't be brought back to court.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2020
• The case has now been dismissed with prejudice, so it can't be refiled.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 July 2022
• As part of the settlement, all claims will be dismissed with prejudice, the city said.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• Yet, a few schools have been able to uniquely transcend this prejudice.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 29 Dec. 2019
• Again, this is not to compare this damage to the life-long impact of racial prejudice.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• Think about who gets which jobs: A good boss is aware of the risk of unconscious prejudice.
  — Marie Claire, 6 Feb. 2018
• Without a cure or a vaccine, this kind of prejudice is its own type of disease.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 11 Mar. 2020

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prejudice

2 of 2 verb

• Or will fear and prejudice once again tear the world apart?
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2018
• To them, this is a matter of being fair and not being prejudiced against either side.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• Many unions were prejudiced against letting in black people.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 29 July 2019
• Now, whether that prejudices them one way or the other in the investigation remains to be seen.
  — Peter Nicholas, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• For those reasons, the court ruled, the errors didn't prejudice Hammonds.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Most defendants wear civilian clothes so the jury won't be prejudiced against them.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2019
• Is the Hall of Fame prejudiced, or was baseball prejudiced and racist?
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The records also would prejudice Christian's right to a fair trial, Scholl said.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• This is the kind of demagoguery that could prejudice a prosecution, or mobilize a mob.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Apr. 2012
• Once charges have been brought, British media law prohibits any reporting about the case that might prejudice a trial.
  — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 18 June 2016
• Merin argued that naming him as the property owner would distract the jury, and could prejudice jurors one way or the other.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• Emails this week in response to that column included a couple of readers who wanted me to point out that black people can be prejudiced, too.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• In recent days, Trump has had new ammunition to support his claims that the Mueller probe is prejudiced against him.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 9 Dec. 2017
• Truth speaks for itself, and there has never been any question in my mind that the Red Sox management is prejudiced.
  — Sridhar Pappu, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• These people can’t or won’t stop trying to prejudice their children against their former partner.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• He wasn’t prejudiced against white people or anybody else, his friend testified.
  — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Other viral outbreaks have been met with xenophobia — the dislike of and prejudice against other countries.
  — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2020
• By not releasing footage, potential jurors would not be prejudiced before a trial, the chief said.
  — Jon Bleiweis, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2017
• With that in mind, the league and team might not want to risk prejudicing Williams’s criminal case by disciplining her for an unproven charge.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 15 July 2019
• Ballin indicated his motion was an effort to ensure the release would not prejudice a future jury.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• What truly paved the way for Trump is the long history of Republican pandering to prejudice.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• Even if the brand is historically prejudiced against larger bodies?
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartzy, 9 June 2019
• Unfortunately, this is where petty turns from a problem to prejudice.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 19 Oct. 2017
• But when judges were shown to have colluded with prosecutors to prejudice the former president, he was released from prison.
  — Andrew Downie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2022
• Vogel argued that jurors could be unfairly prejudiced against his client if allowed to see the honor bands or a large uniformed law enforcement presence in the trial gallery.
  — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The rule aims to allow for a more fair trial, where jury members are less likely to be prejudiced by media coverage or public discussion.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 4 July 2019
• All of that will prejudice Johnson’s ability to receive a fair trial and mount a defense, his attorneys said.
  — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Even the digital catalog of my local library seems prejudiced against a healthy bond between a living father-daughter pair.
  — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
• White college freshmen randomly assigned to black roommates are less prejudiced by spring than students with same-race roommates.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 7 June 2019
• Defense counsel moved for a delay of the trial and a change of venue to a different county, arguing that this information would prejudice the jury.
  — CNN, 20 Apr. 2021

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