How to Use intermarriage in a Sentence

intermarriage

noun
  • To what extent was the gene pool shaped by intermarriage with non-Jews?
    — Shai Carmi, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • To what extent was the gene pool shaped by intermarriage with non-Jews?
    — Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Image This is not to say that plays may not benefit from an intermarriage with screens.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, the main caveat is that intermarriage has been very common between neighboring groups.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • Among adult children of intermarriage, the study found that younger adults are more likely to be Jewish than older adults.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 11 May 2021
  • This social gap has been narrowing for decades, and intermarriage has, in any case, softened the ethnic divide.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • He was publicly opposed to racial intermarriage or to the concept of black officeholders.
    — The Washington Post, 16 June 2020
  • Clark’s red-haired son was just an ordinary man to the Nez Perce, who were accustomed to intermarriage.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
  • One of Maduagwu’s goals is to end the taboo of intermarriage, which will prove challenging.
    — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • All the same, his culinary approach to food decolonization is an intermarriage of foods.
    — James Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The intermarriage rates for white and Black people have roughly tripled since 1980.
    — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • The demographic groups with the highest rates of intermarriage?
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The inequities between the two groups have significantly ebbed over time, through intermarriage and social change.
    — Patrick Kingsley Moises Saman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But intermarriage could not protect the indigenous peoples, and through wars, disease, and famine their numbers continued to wane.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • What clearly animates Tamkin is the debate over intermarriage.
    — Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Supreme Court didn’t overturn all laws against intermarriage until 1967.
    — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
  • From the beginning, intermarriage between white and Native peoples was connected to the fur trade.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • And Fiddler on the Roof is really a musical about intermarriage.
    — Christopher Shea, Vox, 25 May 2018
  • Forty-nine percent of Democrats and independents who lean toward Democrats say increasing of intermarriage is a good thing.
    — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • Early Anglo-Saxon culture was a mixing pot of ideas, intermarriage and movement.
    — Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Saks’ resignation echoes those of other Conservative rabbis who have left the movement in protest of the intermarriage ban.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Later, there was intermarriage with people whose DNA was similar to others in Africa.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But Chabon's views on intermarriage, according to Boyden, will ensure the opposite.
    — Eliana Rudee, Jewish Journal, 6 June 2018
  • And there has been past genealogical work which documents the intermarriage between white men at the Cape and non-European women in the early years of the colony.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2013
  • The prevalence of intermarriage hasn’t eliminated the controversy around it.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Around the same time, the state began advocating intermarriage between Han Chinese and Uyghur people.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
  • This in a period in the United States where the absolute number of people of mixed origin is increasing rapidly due to intermarriage.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
  • Ethnicities also get a little cloudy due to migrations, such as that of the Sephardic Jews, and intermarriage between groups, such as in Mexico.
    — Wendy Fawthrop, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
  • He was born in Bhutan to parents who crossed the border to Nepal after his father violated intermarriage laws by wedding an Indian woman.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2020
  • But the Doukhobor way of life has been buffeted by intermarriage, the allure of city life and a younger generation drawn more to TikTok than Tolstoy.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 4 June 2023

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