How to Use white privilege in a Sentence

white privilege

noun
  • Because, for me and a lot of Black people, that was an example of white privilege.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There is a great deal of white privilege on display in this series, just by nature of Chloe and Adam’s world.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 May 2025
  • The study also detailed that even by the age of 5, Black children were aware of white privilege and were being made to feel less than.
    — Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The significance of white privilege has never been more apparent to me.
    — Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Songs about addiction, cancer, white privilege, being trapped in a small town, being trapped in a small mind, and the inevitability of death.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 June 2023
  • One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist.
    — John MacCormick, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • The insecure teen immediately enjoys the perks of white privilege, but isn’t at all prepared for the downsides.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Pretty privilege uses the same construction as white privilege and similar terms.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The essay discusses gun violence, Nashville protests, and white privilege.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The essay discusses gun violence, Nashville protests, and white privilege.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • One question found the basketball phenom acknowledging her white privilege.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Many in-flight squabbles are proxy battles over white privilege, male entitlement and the accommodation of mothers and children.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Despite coming under fire for white privilege legacy admission practices, Harvard arguably has the strongest brand amongst any school in the world.
    — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Lily Gladstone brings the performance wattage, and an Oklahoma of reservation life and white privilege is the evocative backdrop.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • As Floyd’s death triggered a summer of protest, Cooper’s video continued to have its own impact, sparking discussion about racial bias and white privilege.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the girls deal with—among other afflictions—body-image issues, awful boyfriends, domineering mothers, and, of course, white privilege.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The coincidence of first lady Biden inviting a majority white runner-up team signifies white privilege.
    — Joseph N. Cooper, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Swann, as a Black man, was accustomed to negotiating a world of white privilege, which deepened the antipatriarchy acuity of his drag aesthetic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • What is truly disgraceful is leveraging your skin color to remain employed while insisting that white privilege is responsible for your own shortcomings.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • To make a move like this, to hire the first-ever Black President, from within, after centuries of white privilege practices, requires bravery and leadership.
    — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Their ribald interactions prove genuinely funny at times, especially in a scene in which Xander takes his white privilege for granted while provoking a racist cop.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Like during the worst periods in world history, these bad folks genuinely believe that one group is superior and deserve white privilege, and the other group is all bad, or inferior, and do not merit good jobs.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Louisiana is also among many states that have proposed laws that would ban teachers from instructing concepts around white privilege and racial equity, alongside Idaho, Tennessee and others.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 8 July 2024
  • As that incident triggered a long summer of protest, Cooper’s video continued to have its own impact, sparking discussion about racial bias, white privilege and the power of social media to expose stories of injustice.
    — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • West recalls a conversation in which Aham, who is Black, tacitly implies that monogamy is a form of colonialism or even slavery—which prompts West to consider whether her resistance to polyamory is a result of her own white privilege.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Unlike Greta Gerwig’s toy-feminism, a marketing coup that sold misandry and ineptitude alongside vapid white privilege — all the more biased in its supporting cast of diversity tokens.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There’s also a fellow tenant (A$AP Rocky) at the motel whose elusive appearance and vague attempts to help her out seem to embody Linda’s own white privilege, putting us in the realm of a symbolic dream movie.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
  • An explainer on the Arizona Department of Education web site says mentions of whiteness, white privilege and white supremacy are all signs that critical race theory instruction may be happening.
    — Yana Kunichoff, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, even though the Persky-recall campaign aimed to raise consciousness about white privilege, the additional years in prison were disproportionately imposed on Black and Hispanic people.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Also during Vance's Rogan interview, falsely claimed that people become transgender or gender nonbinary to reject their white privilege and participate in diversity, equity and inclusion programs to get into Ivy League colleges.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024

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