How to Use mixed-race in a Sentence

mixed-race

adjective
  • There are many mixed-race children who don’t get that chance.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • So an 11-year-old mixed-race slave girl brought the system down.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn't always easy.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Given the tenor of the times, Oberon hid her mixed-race heritage.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As a mixed-race girl, my child is likely to encounter some of these stereotypes too.
    — Pragya Agarwal, Scientific American, 24 June 2024
  • That there were Black people living there, mixed-race people living there.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The mother had taken, and still takes, great pride in her [own] mixed-race heritage, in the fact that her father was white.
    — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • Much of the action takes place in the nearby mixed-race neighborhood, Reboleira.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • This is important history, both for Black and mixed-race people.
    — Rebecca R. Bibbs, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • The video shows Carpenter taking pictures of a mixed-race couple wearing a bridal gown and a suit.
    — Beth Reinhard, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The show explores the relationship between a young Jewish man and his mixed-race wife.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • At same time, a semi-nomadic group of mixed-race people called the Griqua settled nearby.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • There are many mixed-race brown people there who are Indigenous and tribal citizens.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Here, Liu talks more about her upbringing, personal style, and growing up in a mixed-race household.
    — Claire Stern, ELLE, 16 July 2023
  • Some of the most cosmopolitan people in their tiny metropole of Boston are the Black or mixed-race people.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
  • In this case, fixing variables meant no split by gender, no mixed-race categories, and only full-time and year-round employment.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The word Creole commonly describes mixed-race people of color.
    — Elizabeth Thomas, ABC News, 9 May 2025
  • Like most mixed-race people, Harris says there is nothing to be ashamed of about having roots in more than one culture or continent.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Both Fyodor and Timo are of mixed-race parentage; otherwise the couple are nothing alike.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Oberon’s mixed-race, lower-class roots alienated her, as a young girl in India, from surrounding society.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The country also elected an openly-gay, mixed-race son of an immigrant as their leader in 2017.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • What remains are mestizo or mixed-race descendants of the Selk’nam, but as a people, they were completely murdered.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Marian is among a group of mixed-race children whose mothers say they were conceived after rape by British soldiers training in Kenya.
    — Larry Madowo, CNN, 17 June 2024
  • Known as the Black Princess, this mestiza (mixed-race woman) was feared as a landowner of various estates and hundreds of slaves.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The suspect was described as a mixed-race man in his 30s, with brown eyes, shoulder-length curly hair, a mustache, beard and an average-to-muscular build.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • For mixed-race children, white, Black, Chinese and Native American, the school became a haven.
    — Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • When Aren is instructed by his dealer to court a collector, the White arts patron mistakes our mixed-race hero for a caterer and hands him his empty wine glass.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That’s a pile for a folk-art portrait, even though Johnson is a mixed-race artist in our age of diversity and the portrait has been in the same family for 220 years.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Police said the suspect is described as a mixed-race man who is about 30 years old with brown eyes, an average to muscular build, shoulder-length curly hair, a large nose, and sporting a mustache and beard.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025

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