How to Use racial in a Sentence

racial

adjective
  • There was racial tension on campus.
  • What is your racial identity?
  • There’s no racial standards in the air.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Questions about racial bias in sports are not new.
    — Brielle Miller, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
  • That racial trend holds true for the rest of the country, too.
    — ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That racial gap has only widened over the past 10 years.
    — Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What to do with the paranoid racial reading?
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Kuiper appeared to replace the first word with the racial slur.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The two grocery stores on the main street show the racial divide.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The man used the N-word and other racial slurs in the video.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • So do men and women, and fans across racial and ethnic groups.
    — Todd Rogers, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But there are stark differences among racial groups.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Why did the court look at that and say, this is not racial animus?
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • This policy reeks of racial bias.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The main point of our book was to go deeper than the weeds, to the very roots of racial bias.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Their appeal cut across racial boundaries.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But for a brief time, we were too focussed on our own racial grievances to see past them.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The bill has been heralded as a valuable tool to help close the racial wealth gap.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In a case that has stirred racial tensions, none of the jurors are Black.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026
  • Respondents broke along racial and ethnic lines as well.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The split between dads and moms working isn’t the same across all racial backgrounds.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • Death rates declined across all racial and ethnic groups, and in both men and women.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In one of the videos, a man who police say was a victim can be heard shouting racial slurs.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Their act often mocked and challenged racial stereotypes.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • Jonah has a bit of racial obsession.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The racial gap has also defied years of attempts by the agency to close it.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Why is closing the racial wealth gap of the utmost importance to you?
    — Brad Ogbonna, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • White teens are more likely to have a job than teens from any other racial group, Pew found.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • There have been efforts to close the racial gaps in treating organ failure.
    — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Adding to that, old maps and documents often referred to the creek by a racial slur.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026

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