How to Use homophobia in a Sentence

homophobia

noun
  • There’s not a ton of homophobia around them — was that true to their world?
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • There was a lot of battling homophobia and slurs.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some academics argue this is due to the homophobia of the time.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There’s so much fear in the air and so much homophobia and anti-Semitism.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • There’s still a lot of homophobia and hatred.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Right-wingers have used Clark not only to race-bait but to stir homophobia.
    — Karen Attiah, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • The homophobia that plagues too many churches was quick to surface in cultural pews as well.
    — Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In the past two months, hate speech, sexism and homophobia has been amplified in the country.
    — Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Essence, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The next piece is tackling homophobia dead on, but through the lens of a haunted house in Ireland.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
  • There is, in fact, a deep well of lust underneath his homophobia, the kind that’s all consuming.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The homophobia Yamilet and her brother Cesar grow up around seeps its way in.
    — Eva Recinos, ELLE, 2 June 2022
  • As such, some have said the lyrics smack of transmisogyny, while others read it as homophobia due to the line about lisps.
    — Mikelle Street, Teen Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Historically, there has been a lot of homophobia in the hip-hop world.
    — William Earl, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Jen’s homophobia toward Brooks, and of course, there are receipts.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Some of it could be warped to promote homophobia and intolerance of people who don’t toe the line.
    — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2007
  • Costantini’s astute choice of clips shines a light on the culture at the time in all its sexism and homophobia.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
  • But the casual homophobia laced throughout so much media from the decade?
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The movie follows a group of straight people who shed their homophobia after an angry travel agent books them on a cruise for gay men.
    — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 24 May 2017
  • Couch came out as a freshman in college; Sky faces much more blatant homophobia being out in high school.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Her parents are coldly up-front in their homophobia, but this is the late 1980s.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Given the homophobia of the past — and present, in some areas — the two hid their relationship.
    — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Then there’s the throughline of systemic homophobia.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Roman’s survivor’s guilt over his brother’s death is due in part to his homophobia toward Rocky.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In Germany, the far-right has been accused of stirring homophobia in recent years.
    — Rick Noack, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But Rapinoe has a way of reaching beyond the sexism and homophobia.
    — Ryan McGinley; Styling By Yashua Simmons, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2021
  • There are many problems connected to homophobia, which is so cruel and really needs to stop.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Jeffree shared a tweet about the homophobia he's been receiving, though did not make clear who the tweet was specifically about.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Is the feud a product of entrenched misogyny and homophobia among the thin-blooded one percent?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
  • A lot of it came from internalized homophobia and his own repression.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
  • By bringing the party—along with the politics—into the streets in broad daylight, pride fought against homophobia.
    — Laurie Marhoefer, Quartz, 20 June 2019

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