How to Use bigot in a Sentence

bigot

noun
  • But a bigot on this team — this team of all others — stuns the senses.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Blacks who the man had meant to shoot welcomed the bigot with outstretched arms.
    — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
  • He is embraced by bigots, who recognize him as one of their own.
    — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The video of what Barkley does next has gone viral and outraged the bigots.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The bigots and bullies, in other words, are getting away with it.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
  • It’s rarely practiced when the bigot thinks the targets of their words are watching.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • What's most shocking isn't that there are anti-gay and anti-trans bigots in the world.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In 2018, most of us are lucky enough not to work with outright bigots.
    — Nick Levine, GQ, 14 June 2018
  • And that marketing falls apart when the person at the center of it is a racist bigot.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • We’re told the old bigot fell down a well, but Berniece suspects that her brother must have pushed him.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And Miller, who is Jewish, took issue with that and called her a bigot.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But, on the other hand, there were also those who were racists and bigots and everything else.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • Rabbi Teitz said Sohail didn’t strike him as a bigot.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Stroman is not going to back down from a fight, especially to a bigot and racist.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The same bigots who are sending people back away from their children are the ones who brought my ancestors here.
    — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • And she’s proved that even people who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Allegedly, the woman called Kotesky a bigot and threatened to throw up on him.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
  • More to the point, however, calling someone a bigot is also free speech.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Stevie, though, promptly beats this bigot’s ass, while noting that the Aryans don’t fight so well one-on-one.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2025
  • There was no question that the Bundys energized some devout bigots.
    — Trevor Aaronson, The Intercept, 16 May 2017
  • The piece culminated with a call to show indifference to the lives of bigots.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 June 2017
  • Bigots join the Klan, kill black people, and redline black neighborhoods.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 18 Aug. 2017
  • To me, anyone who has a certain set of rights and seeks to deprive people of those rights is, by definition, a bigot.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Hammoud then accused Barham of being a bigot based on a video Barham had posted online.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Godfrey Cambridge stars as a white bigot who wakes up one morning in his suburban home as a Black man.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The issue isn’t simply that a bunch of bigots wrote threatening words on the dorms of five cadets, that’s almost to be expected.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The group’s escape from Simonsville is the first heart-pounding flight from a bigot — or, in this case, a pack of bigots — on fast wheels.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Or in the case of Pittsburgh, America does not have a monopoly on bigots.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 29 Oct. 2018
  • But the stunt goes south as Wooley turns out to be an unabashed bigot who embarrasses the show and gets scolded by the host.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Still, the war may as well have been yesterday for all of the old bigot’s antics and the vinegary asides by his Black employees.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023

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