How to Use ethnicity in a Sentence

ethnicity

noun
  • And to him, this is not about race or ethnicity.
    — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Views of the asylum laws do not vary much across lines of race or ethnicity, the poll found.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Melton aims for roles where ethnicity isn’t the defining trait.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • That’s true every time a virus is blamed on a nation or an ethnicity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Add in the factors of race and ethnicity, and the process can become more volatile.
    — Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • As with so many other things, race, ethnicity, and income play a role here.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • Nobody earns a place in the squad because of their ethnicity.
    — Arminka Helic, Time, 30 June 2026
  • This type of melanoma affects people of all races, ethnicities and ages.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025
  • The amounts vary by ethnicity, but can account for up to a few percent of the human genome.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • There are lots and lots of ethnicities and linguistic groups.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2025
  • White teens were more likely to use delta-8 and weed than those of any other race or ethnicity.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Volunteers still count them as observed and make a best guess at their age and ethnicity.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • There are lots of questions still to be answered about age, gender, race and ethnicity.
    — Megan L. Ranney, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
  • This study was one of the longest of its kind and covers all 50 states by race and ethnicity.
    — Fablina Sharara, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
  • These can be things like ethnicity, region of residence, and so on.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
  • People of all ages and ethnicities waited in a line that was easily an hour long.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • At the time of writing, Sol’s ethnicity has not been revealed.
    — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 10 June 2026
  • Michael‘s success is a result of playing across all ethnicities and age groups.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One actress noted that on a recent trip to the optometrist, she was asked about her ethnicity.
    — Jill Inderstrodt, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • That led to an effort to build databases to look at health outcomes and break them down by race, ethnicity, and language.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Experts say there is no analysis by race or ethnicity of the length of time people use the program.
    — Paula Andalo / Kff Health News and, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Experts say there is no analysis by race or ethnicity of the length of time people use the program.
    — Paula Andalo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
    — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The 16% varies by age, race and ethnicity, and household income.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • And the census is still trying to figure out how to ask questions to sort out race, ethnicity and origins.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • Tell me, where there are gains, and then where those gains are offset by disparities in age or income or race and ethnicity.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The rules apply equally to all, whether young or old, healthy or infirm, and regardless of race or ethnicity.
    — Jim R. Benté, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The idea was to make the sport available to girls 10-18 of all ethnicities and backgrounds.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ethnicity.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: