How to Use miscegenation in a Sentence

miscegenation

noun

• In one instance, a Jew named Heinz Alexander was accused of the racial crime of miscegenation for having had an affair with an Aryan.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Once married to Ada, a white woman, Ming Tsu was beaten and sentenced to 10 years of hard desert labor after Ada’s bigoted father brought charges of miscegenation.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
• Blacula meets Shaft with some miscegenation anxiety thrown in for kicks.
  — Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• Many of the traditional dishes are the product of miscegenation and mixed foods that were consumed in Europe with others that were consumed by indigenous peoples, such as broad beans or nopales.
  — Imelda García, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• With its many hidden histories and ever-present diverse population that are a constant reminder of the miscegenation of the past, New Orleans has always been a bit of an enigma.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 10 July 2024
• Alice is Asian, and the couple's union violates Montana's miscegenation laws.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• The Virginia residents had married in the District of Columbia and then returned to their home state, where they were indicted on a charge of violating the state’s anti-miscegenation laws.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
• Is a prohibition of miscegenation a discrimination against the colored member of the couple who would like to marry?
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
• Another factor in my slew of offers was likely that the vexing trend toward FDA-pharma miscegenation had entered the minds of those worried about such things as the public interest and fairness and democracy.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• The currents in the history of the West preoccupied with miscegenation and corruption of the blood are feeble in the face of the overwhelming tide of annexation, assimilation, and admixture.
  — Daniel Foster, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
• Somehow, barriers need to be erected against miscegenation.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• At first, the musical comedy resembled a plotless revue — until the arrival of Show Boat in 1927, a melodrama about miscegenation with lofty aspirations.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• Once Italian troops invaded Ethiopia, the specter of miscegenation imparted a new urgency to ongoing state efforts to modify comportment and primal drives.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
• In 1937 miscegenation became a criminal offense for all Italians, punishable by five years in prison; women who were discovered having relations with African men were publicly whipped and sent to concentration camps.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
• Not only did most lawmakers support miscegenation laws in the late nineteenth century, but interracial relationships were not accepted by a majority of Americans, in general, in opinion polls, until the 1990s.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 May 2022
• In a similar vein, despite valorizing Canudos residents in certain moments, da Cunha concluded that the Northeast’s inferior geology bred inferior men, and that miscegenation put the Brazilian nation at risk.
  — Ela Bittencourt, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• In 1934, the Production Code, colloquially known as the Hays Code, was adopted by the industry, officially disallowing onscreen miscegenation and interracial romance.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• But because of miscegenation laws that prevented interracial couples onscreen—and rampant yellowface practices—her opportunities were mostly limited to stereotypes like the rejected other woman or the villainous dragon lady.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• Music history is a history of influences, absorption, appropriation, cultural promiscuity, creative miscegenation.
  — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 29 Oct. 1997