How to Use Juneteenth in a Sentence

Juneteenth

noun

• Kendrick rode his hate train all the way from Juneteenth to the Fourth of July.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
• At a surprise Juneteenth concert, Lamar performed the song five times to an arena full of fans who knew every word.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
• Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, was able to see her home raised again on the lot were her childhood home was ravaged and burned.
  — Candi Bolden, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2024
• Changes also include adding Juneteenth as a holiday and aligning leave policies with non-union standards.
  — Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
• Texas adopted Juneteenth as a state holiday in 1980, and in recent years, all but three states had as well.
  — Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 13 May 2024
• On a recent summer day, one storefront featured a poster about a Juneteenth celebration.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
• The event was held shortly before the country celebrated Juneteenth.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 27 July 2023
• During the Juneteenth weekend alone, 11 people were shot, including a 6-year-old boy who was wounded in the back of a car.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Steven Barter, founder of the clothing line Barriers, usually uses Juneteenth to rest.
  — Essence, 24 June 2025
• The court was closed on Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth and a half-day was already scheduled for Friday.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
• Now, ByteDance has until mid-June, specifically Juneteenth, to figure it out.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
• As a result of the deal, temporary employees will have a lower threshold to meet in order to receive comp days and Juneteenth will be added has a holiday.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025
• The tour is usually held only during Black History Month and on Juneteenth.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
• To be sure, there’s still some violence in this film about a group of friends gathering at a cabin for Juneteenth — substantially more than many other entries on this list.
  — Samantha Allen, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
• This photo shows a girl waving from the top of a lowrider during the annual Juneteenth Parade on the east side of Austin, Texas.
  — Meredith Nierman, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
• Before Juneteenth, a Black neighborhood in Plano was on its way to becoming one of the city's most vibrant communities.
  — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
• Some are evenings of 10-minute plays, an annual event that honors Juneteenth through theater, and the group debuts a full-length original work annually.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
• Opal Lee, a 97-year-old teacher and activist who campaigned to make Juneteenth a national holiday, also received a medal.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• June In June, vacation maximizers should look to Juneteenth, on the 19th, which falls on a Thursday.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2024
• These benches were installed on Juneteenth in 2021, which is the federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• Adewumi, a creative designer and photographer, will use the grant to train in computer numerical control operations, which will integrate sculpture into his Juneteenth House project, an ongoing project of the themes and meaning of that holiday.
  — James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2025
• By June of this year, the choir was performing at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s celebration of Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field and at a Juneteenth event at Wrigley Field.
  — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025