How to Use mixed-race in a Sentence

mixed-race

adjective
  • Given the tenor of the times, Oberon hid her mixed-race heritage.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • So an 11-year-old mixed-race slave girl brought the system down.
    Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • There are many mixed-race children who don’t get that chance.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn't always easy.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • As a mixed-race girl, my child is likely to encounter some of these stereotypes too.
    Pragya Agarwal, Scientific American, 24 June 2024
  • The mother had taken, and still takes, great pride in her [own] mixed-race heritage, in the fact that her father was white.
    Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • Much of the action takes place in the nearby mixed-race neighborhood, Reboleira.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The video shows Carpenter taking pictures of a mixed-race couple wearing a bridal gown and a suit.
    Beth Reinhard, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That there were Black people living there, mixed-race people living there.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Dudley's mixed-race family lost their home here as a result.
    Richard Quest and Joe Minehane, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At same time, a semi-nomadic group of mixed-race people called the Griqua settled nearby.
    Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • That’s a pile for a folk-art portrait, even though Johnson is a mixed-race artist in our age of diversity and the portrait has been in the same family for 220 years.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Adapted from Charles Chesnutt’s 1900 novel of the same name, the film’s heroine is a mixed-race woman who passes for white and is wooed by a white millionaire.
    Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Here, Liu talks more about her upbringing, personal style, and growing up in a mixed-race household.
    Claire Stern, ELLE, 16 July 2023
  • Amid these stories, one figure always stood out: a Siamese-Chinese mixed-race female farmer.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Politics Ali: What’s so hard about mixed-race heritage for Trump to understand?
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Known as the Black Princess, this mestiza (mixed-race woman) was feared as a landowner of various estates and hundreds of slaves.
    Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The country also elected an openly-gay, mixed-race son of an immigrant as their leader in 2017.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Like most mixed-race people, Harris says there is nothing to be ashamed of about having roots in more than one culture or continent.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Both Fyodor and Timo are of mixed-race parentage; otherwise the couple are nothing alike.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • As a White guy in a mixed-race relationship, I’m also pumped Kamala would give us the first White guy first gentleman #girldad.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
    Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • There are many mixed-race brown people there who are Indigenous and tribal citizens.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • When Aren is instructed by his dealer to court a collector, the White arts patron mistakes our mixed-race hero for a caterer and hands him his empty wine glass.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In this case, fixing variables meant no split by gender, no mixed-race categories, and only full-time and year-round employment.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Marian is among a group of mixed-race children whose mothers say they were conceived after rape by British soldiers training in Kenya.
    Larry Madowo, CNN, 17 June 2024
  • What remains are mestizo or mixed-race descendants of the Selk’nam, but as a people, they were completely murdered.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Between the calf and the woman are works that weave the story of Caribbean life from the start of colonialism to the present, where a mixed-race populace still deals with the aftereffects of domination.
    Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Oberon’s mixed-race, lower-class roots alienated her, as a young girl in India, from surrounding society.
    Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The title character of the play is Black, and, in an effort to bring the message of the play into the present, Mathews’s teacher had shown the class a television segment about a Cheerios commercial with a mixed-race couple.
    Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023

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