How to Use miscegenation in a Sentence

miscegenation

noun
  • Blacula meets Shaft with some miscegenation anxiety thrown in for kicks.
    — Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Alice is Asian, and the couple's union violates Montana's miscegenation laws.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Is a prohibition of miscegenation a discrimination against the colored member of the couple who would like to marry?
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
  • In one instance, a Jew named Heinz Alexander was accused of the racial crime of miscegenation for having had an affair with an Aryan.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • Many of the traditional dishes are the product of miscegenation and mixed foods that were consumed in Europe with others that were consumed by indigenous peoples, such as broad beans or nopales.
    — Imelda García, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The taboo of miscegenation makes up the body of the pagan cynocephalus, wherein religious difference is figured as racial difference, and, remarkably, as species difference (or crisis).
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Once married to Ada, a white woman, Ming Tsu was beaten and sentenced to 10 years of hard desert labor after Ada’s bigoted father brought charges of miscegenation.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Once Italian troops invaded Ethiopia, the specter of miscegenation imparted a new urgency to ongoing state efforts to modify comportment and primal drives.
    — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The Virginia residents had married in the District of Columbia and then returned to their home state, where they were indicted on a charge of violating the state’s anti-miscegenation laws.
    — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
  • The currents in the history of the West preoccupied with miscegenation and corruption of the blood are feeble in the face of the overwhelming tide of annexation, assimilation, and admixture.
    — Daniel Foster, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
  • The press, however—fearing backlash to its positive depiction of interracial romance—rewrote the conclusion without Grey’s knowledge or consent, killing off Nophaie and the offending prospect of miscegenation.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At first, the musical comedy resembled a plotless revue — until the arrival of Show Boat in 1927, a melodrama about miscegenation with lofty aspirations.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In 1937 miscegenation became a criminal offense for all Italians, punishable by five years in prison; women who were discovered having relations with African men were publicly whipped and sent to concentration camps.
    — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Not only did most lawmakers support miscegenation laws in the late nineteenth century, but interracial relationships were not accepted by a majority of Americans, in general, in opinion polls, until the 1990s.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 May 2022
  • In a similar vein, despite valorizing Canudos residents in certain moments, da Cunha concluded that the Northeast’s inferior geology bred inferior men, and that miscegenation put the Brazilian nation at risk.
    — Ela Bittencourt, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • Music history is a history of influences, absorption, appropriation, cultural promiscuity, creative miscegenation.
    — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 29 Oct. 1997
  • In 1934, the Production Code, colloquially known as the Hays Code, was adopted by the industry, officially disallowing onscreen miscegenation and interracial romance.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Nancy Buirski's documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple who fought Virginia's Jim Crow-era miscegenation laws, eschews narration, instead using archival footage and interviews with those involved to tell a quiet but forceful story that is both a cry for justice and a romance.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026

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