How to Use interracial in a Sentence

interracial

adjective
  • There was a time when interracial couples and their children had to hide in shame.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 July 2022
  • Black leads as well as an interracial couple as their neighbors.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The song tells the tale interracial love affair between a white man and a black woman that doesn’t go over well.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Maybe this interracial-love fetish would have jelled better in the Obama era.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Their union was a rare event — the Sethmans are an interracial couple.
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2020
  • There just happens to be a gay couple at the center, an interracial gay couple at that.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But more than that, my parents — an interracial couple — were martial artists, and so kung fu movies feel like home.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The latter project focuses on a year in the life of an interracial couple.
    — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Some were one half of an interracial couple, while others appeared to be there with their white co-workers or friends.
    — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The song dealt with a teenage interracial relationship, a still-taboo subject at the time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Funt is talking to a man who’s waiting for a bus to arrive when an interracial couple start making out next to them.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The ad showcased an interracial couple where the woman is Black.
    — Sonia Thompson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Chester Tam wrote the script and is attached to direct the interracial love story inspired by his life.
    — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • That afforded her the money to form an interracial track team that was thought to be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
    — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
  • James Kirk, a moment that marked one of the first interracial kisses on television.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
  • At the time in some areas of the USA, interracial boxing was banned.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • Let’s hope that the World Cup will give us many love stories, interracial couples and children.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • The film was a massive success and featured an interracial couple on screen, pushing the boundaries at the time.
    — Susan Welsh, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • For younger interracial couples, the thought that their right to marry could ever be threatened is a foreign concept.
    — Denise Lavoie, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • With love and intention, interracial couples can thrive.
    — September 27, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The fact that three of the couples discussed her are interracial simply isn’t enough progress for 2018.
    — refinery29.com, 14 June 2018
  • For interracial couples in the US, the right to marry has been recognized much longer.
    — Sara Burnett, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Doomed interracial relationships are the source of many of the stories’ melancholy.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Yes, the Freedom Riders were men and women and also an interracial group.
    — al, 4 May 2021
  • Two men singing a love song, encouraging interracial dating.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • To me, co-creating is one of the greatest joys of interracial relationships.
    — September 27, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Topper Club was an interracial primarily gay male space where black and white men could find each other.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2025
  • African American and us being an interracial gay couple in the South.
    — Amanda Long, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Thousands of strong interracial friendships and partnerships in sports have blossomed over the last 75 years.
    — Louis Porter Ii and Dane Smith, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The story follows an interracial couple who reconnect with an old school acquaintance and offer to take him in.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025

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