How to Use blackface in a Sentence

blackface

noun
  • This isn’t the first time a preschool has used blackface, either.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There was a blackface song for one of the protagonists of the show.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • The same Joy that paraded around in blackface not too long ago?
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2020
  • An Oregon school staff member showed up to work in blackface.
    — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2021
  • One of the others shows a man in blackface who is dressed up as a woman wearing a wig.
    — Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2019
  • Blackfaces’ for my band, with a design of a person in blackface?
    — Sonia K. Katyal, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • First, a high school yearbook of Erich in blackface surfaced.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Meredith, who is white, then texted a photo of himself in blackface.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Because there’s a lot of those, there’s thousands of pictures of me in blackface.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Miller and Lyles, for instance, performed their roles in blackface.
    — John Check, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Two days later, she was pulled out of class and suspended for wearing blackface.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Which is to say, the burly adult man-in-a-dress Halloween schtick is out—blackface-level out.
    — Hannah Elyse Simpson, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2015
  • In a third incident, a brief video surfaced of Trudeau in blackface.
    — Dylan Bouscher, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Several shows have been called into question over the use of blackface.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
  • The actors mill about the stage wearing mammy costumes or blackface.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 28 June 2017
  • Around the same time critics also accused her of sporting blackface in a series of ads for her makeup line.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • The origins of blackface date back to the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The mishap is just the latest accusation of blackface in fashion.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
  • At a testing event in Barcelona, in 2008, he was taunted by fans in blackface.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Patterson condemned the use of blackface.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One photo from 1939 showed white children in blackface as part of a youth group event for a local church.
    — Joshua Irvine, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
  • Later, photos and a video emerged during the campaign of Trudeau as a younger man wearing blackface.
    — Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The character is often portrayed by white actors in blackface.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026
  • The show's live episode from season six, which features guest star Jon Hamm in blackface, will no longer be available.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 June 2020
  • The teen who was supposed to be Floyd, 46, was in blackface and lying motionless on the ground.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • If Ted Danson can recover from that whole blackface, N-word thing, there’s hope for you.
    — Chevonne Harris, Esquire, 2 Feb. 2018
  • In one scene that made the Tribeca audience groan, Howard Stern does a parody in blackface.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
  • Williams, who was one of the first Black actors to star on Broadway, was often required to perform in blackface.
    — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In October, a photo surfaced of the 31-year-old dressed in blackface as a high school student.
    — John Haughey, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2020
  • Police in Perryville, Maryland, are still on the lookout for a white man who robbed a local bank while dressed in blackface.
    — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 31 Jan. 2020

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