How to Use non-white in a Sentence

non-white

1 of 2 adjective
  • The stops have also been found to affect non-white drivers at higher rates.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Even non-white countries understand that.
    — Elie Mystal, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Among non-white households, 19% or nearly one in five, faced this problem.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • There is not a single non-white person in the alternate universe.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Consider low funding levels for non-white schools.
    — Nina Stachenfeld, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • In turn, that means non-repayment has been getting worse for non-white borrowers.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 27 June 2023
  • O’Brien had instructed them all to throw out data from non-white women.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
  • Wisconsin has long been the state with the widest achievement gap between white and non-white students.
    — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Hatred of non-white immigrants.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 2025
  • And being the rare non-white team was its own catalyst for comparison.
    — Alice Park, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This limits the chances of finding a donor, especially for non-white patients.
    — WIRED, 27 July 2023
  • Progressive language and policies meant to win those non-white voters simply didn’t work.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But screening rates are lower among non-white populations, the report found.
    — Lily Alvino, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • Anybody who is non-white breaks his face into a grotesque grin, accentuated by the creepy makeup.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • There is also insufficient training for physicians about how to spot cancers on non-white skin.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 July 2023
  • Such research also hasn’t been done for other non-white populations.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Applicants most be non-white or of Latin descent, and demonstrate financial need.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For the most part, there weren't enough non-white Republicans to see whether these trends are occurring in that party as well.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Rivera’s rise, as a non-white leading lady charged with carrying a show and filling seats, was improbable to say the least.
    — Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Ocean was part of the first entirely non-white lineup of headliners in the festival's history.
    — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • What better way to honor our non-white ancestors than to choose something from the Algonquin language?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • Whichever side one takes, the question of a non-white Bond has remained open long enough for Idris Elba to age out of the role.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Shackleford would become the city's first Black, first female, and first non-white mayor, something which she's said is long overdue.
    — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • Two of these men are models, one of them is a footy player, and only one of them comes from a non-white background, with Cortes hailing from Brazil.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Overall, Democratic ranks are now 44% non-white, up from 23% in Clinton’s day.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • This reliance on non-white votes is especially important in the ultra-close swing states that decide the presidency.
    — Henry Olsen, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Lizzo’s production team is made up of a lot of white people in that mid-manager role and the dancers are non-white, which already asserts a kind of race dynamic at play.
    — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There are eight wall color presets too, where parameters are adjusted for optimum viewing on non-white surfaces.
    — New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Darjeeling doesn’t do right by most of its non-white characters, but in her brief scenes, Karan sketches an intriguing and beguiling woman.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • For example, the number of non-white and female students taking the AP computer science exam is on the rise.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024

non-white

2 of 2 noun
  • Also by this time, there was an entrenched class divide between the minority white business owners and groups of non-white workers.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026
  • That’s the quality that brings the country, its people together — having a non-white population.
    — Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Black history — any non-white history, really — is the history of resistance and the road map to recovery from this dark era of hate.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Unfortunately the unmarked vehicle’s drivers are cops all too willing to arrest and pin dubious charges on their non-white, gangbanger-looking quarry.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • Worries about big-brother government and non-white foreigners proliferated.
    — Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The regulations are meant to provide opportunities that were denied non-white people under the country’s previous apartheid system of white minority rule.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Nationally, white lawmakers typically hold some of the 115-plus House seats where the voting-age population is majority non-white.
    — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The average number of annual foreclosures in majority non-white ZIP codes has been more than three times the national average, according to the data.
    — Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • The proportion of non-white people in senior roles has also fallen since 2022 to 12% and remains stubbornly at 2019 levels, the report found.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 July 2026
  • Diamond’s findings will therefore be a big disappointment to those at the coalface of improving representation for non-white people in the UK TV industry.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 July 2026

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