How to Use homophobe in a Sentence

homophobe

noun
  • To be clear, not many people think Quinn Norton is a racist or a homophobe.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Cole’s older brother, Christian, is a homophobe who forcibly keeps them apart.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • This is even more important for the public than rasist and homophobe scandal.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 6 May 2018
  • The second verse is about homophobes and the people picketing outside our concerts.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There was nothing to be gained by trying to educate an ignorant homophobe who appears to have been trying to start a fight.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Even the worst human among them — a vile racist (and homophobe) called Dougray — is allowed his back story, which helps explain, if in no way excuse, him.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Gay men’s classic sources of trauma and violence stem less from being hit on than from being literally hit by homophobes.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
  • But Ruben curtly responds that the only real homophobe is Niall himself.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 29 May 2026
  • What about the fact that Margaret Court is a virulent and unapologetic homophobe?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 June 2019
  • But honestly, this journey has shown me that, in reality, most people are not racists, homophobes, or misogynists.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Were there conversations with her about your decision to play an unapologetic homophobe?
    — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Granted with money, resources, and celebrity, these crusaders are addicts, murderers, racists, rapists, homophobes, and more.
    — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The man also brought up Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible passage often cited by homophobes.
    — Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 5 Nov. 2014
  • During their southbound trip, the duo meet dozens of new characters who, on any other television program, would be drawn as over-the-top characatures of homophobes and racists.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2020
  • He was labeled a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a fascist, an advocate of torture and an aspiring dictator.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • The artists behind the song, who all hail from Puerto Rico, call out Rosselló by name and describe him as a homophobe and a dictator.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 18 July 2019
  • He is labeled a homophobe by his critics, but in socially conservative Brazil his objections have been welcomed.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • Bolsonaro, a former Army captain whose followers call him the Legend, is an unabashed racist, homophobe, and misogynist.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Someone said vulnerable students shouldn’t have to bear the burden of debating a white supremacist or a homophobe, or be fearful because people with those views are on campus.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Wherever Benedict had traveled, he was hounded by protesters for being a reactionary, an abettor of child abuse, a homophobe, a Nazi.
    — Joe Keohane, Esquire, 22 Oct. 2013
  • Considering Imperioli’s delightful and varied career, this is a huge loss for homophobes.
    — Vulture, 1 July 2023
  • Financial Times Twitter ads Twitter has apologized for letting advertisers target hate groups such as neo-Nazis and homophobes.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Religious Zionism supporters regularly express anti-Arab views, and among their legislators are a number of overt homophobes.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Suddenly, the only people who saw utility in religious liberty were these Catholics and Evangelicals, who now seemed to their opponents as nothing other than misogynists and homophobes.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Policy swings Critics denied Johnson as lazy, racist, misogynist, and a homophobe during his successful attempt to become London mayor in 2008.
    — Phil Boucher, Fortune, 23 July 2019
  • Over the past two weeks, Gen Z has set its sights on Eminem, the monolithic rapper who’s sold tens of millions of albums while infuriating countless critics who branded him a misogynist, homophobe and abuse apologist over the last quarter-century.
    — Bryan Rolli, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • When Elaine Noble, the first openly gay legislator in Massachusetts, was targeted by menacing homophobes, Frank, as attorney general, went to comfort her and assigned a security detail.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • In one corner are universal rights to housing, health care, education, food, and safety; in the other are the ideologies espoused by Islamophobes, homophobes, anti-Semites, sexists, ethno-nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019

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