How to Use Black Lives Matter in a Sentence

Black Lives Matter

noun
  • The Black Lives Matter movement spread across all fifty states.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Along came Covid and Black Lives Matter, but the film kept chugging along.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The Black Lives Matter protests in Hollywood were not far from my house.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
  • The game show also called out everyone who has put away their Black Lives Matter signs.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • One social movement that gripped the nation was called Black Lives Matter.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But as soon as the Black Lives Matter chants quieted in the streets, so did their rabid support.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And in 2015 people were scared to use the hashtag Black Lives Matter.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This section of the movie is filmed after the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
    — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 20 June 2024
  • He was sworn in as chief in 2020 at the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement and pandemic.
    — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The Black Lives Matter movement that had begun in Ferguson moved back onto the streets.
    — Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
  • Later in the set, Eminem took a knee, an explicit shout-out to the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
  • His death was among the catalysts for the Black Lives Matter movement in summer 2020.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The book was inspired by the same events that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement — police killings of unarmed Black men and women.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Yet, in recent years, disagreements over policing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the war in Gaza have reopened old wounds.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
  • City officials developed the teams as part of their response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
  • For example, programs launched in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement have weakened.
    — Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • It was vandalized and taken down during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Other photos of protests and struggles bridge the decades from the 1960s to the era of Black Lives Matter and modern activism.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And despite the course’s origins around the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, study of the movement is optional.
    — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The case in question occurred in October 2020, near the peak of that year’s Black Lives Matter protest movement.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Jan. 2025
  • By the time Gamal was writing in 2016, military equipment was on display in the response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
  • Particularly with pro-Black Lives Matter messages during the 2020 season.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
  • Black Lives Matter Minnesota co-founder Monique Cullars-Doty said that the federal prosecution was misguided.
    — Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Black Lives Matter of Greater New York held a small protest against the decision to grant Duran's bail in Manhattan's Flatiron District.
    — Mark Prussin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a national hub for local BLM chapters, on Friday expressed gratitude for those activists.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The city erased multiple Black Lives Matter crosswalks in South Dallas on Wednesday, two days after the removal of Oak Lawn’s rainbow crosswalks began.
    — Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, alongside Porter’s family and loved ones, are holding a community vigil in honor of Porter on Sunday.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Baker also posted a detailed timeline on The Black Times website outlining how Black Lives Matter OKC had amassed millions of dollars in donations.
    — Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Ayo Edebiri had to take the proverbial mic and answer a question about Black Lives Matter directed to her white co-stars, Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts, at a press junket for their new film, After the Hunt.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated as a terror group in Florida and Texas, has endorsed the event, along with Black Lives Matter Detroit and the LA Tenants Union.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026

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