How to Use non-white in a Sentence

non-white

adjective
  • The stops have also been found to affect non-white drivers at higher rates.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Two of these men are models, one of them is a footy player, and only one of them comes from a non-white background, with Cortes hailing from Brazil.
    Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • O’Brien had instructed them all to throw out data from non-white women.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
  • For the most part, there weren't enough non-white Republicans to see whether these trends are occurring in that party as well.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Overall, Democratic ranks are now 44% non-white, up from 23% in Clinton’s day.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • This limits the chances of finding a donor, especially for non-white patients.
    WIRED, 27 July 2023
  • In turn, that means non-repayment has been getting worse for non-white borrowers.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 27 June 2023
  • Rivera’s rise, as a non-white leading lady charged with carrying a show and filling seats, was improbable to say the least.
    Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Shackleford would become the city's first Black, first female, and first non-white mayor, something which she's said is long overdue.
    Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • Anybody who is non-white breaks his face into a grotesque grin, accentuated by the creepy makeup.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • For example, the number of non-white and female students taking the AP computer science exam is on the rise.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Ocean was part of the first entirely non-white lineup of headliners in the festival's history.
    CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • What better way to honor our non-white ancestors than to choose something from the Algonquin language?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • There is also insufficient training for physicians about how to spot cancers on non-white skin.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 July 2023
  • Lizzo’s production team is made up of a lot of white people in that mid-manager role and the dancers are non-white, which already asserts a kind of race dynamic at play.
    Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Drivers of fancy cars yield to pedestrians less often than drivers of humble cars, and still less if the pedestrians are non-white men.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, the senator, who has struggled so far to gain traction in the polls, is pitching himself as a non-white candidate who agrees with the issues that motivates the GOP base, Brown said.
    Averi Harper, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The show intends to be a character study, a look into how people process trauma, and to create a conversation around race; the series looks at the death of a white woman in a non-white country.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Such research also hasn’t been done for other non-white populations.
    Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Darjeeling doesn’t do right by most of its non-white characters, but in her brief scenes, Karan sketches an intriguing and beguiling woman.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • This reliance on non-white votes is especially important in the ultra-close swing states that decide the presidency.
    Henry Olsen, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The billionaire has also been criticized for claiming that Boeing’s issues with the 737 Max 9 were caused by hiring too many non-white pilots and factory workers.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The billionaire has also been criticized for claiming that Boeing’s issues with the 737 Max 9 were caused by hiring too many non-white pilots and factory workers.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • And locations with a diverse non-white population (instead of a concentrated racial or ethnic group) tend to score better, Langston says.
    USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • Cumberland Sauce, one of our best ham glaze recipes, is a popular British condiment that's delicious on most meats, but especially non-white meats like ham, lamb, venison, or any other game meat.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And residents in lower-income, non-white communities disproportionately bear the brunt of extreme heat, due in part to a lack of tree shade in those neighborhoods.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Google’s Gemini was often defaulting to showing non-white people and women because of how the company used a process called fine-tuning to guide a model’s responses.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The new freshwater fish research identified an elevated risk for low-income and non-white populations across the U.S.
    Yessenia Funes, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Martha also wants to downplay the gentrification angle, and all the talk about the local non-white communities, and just focus on Whitney’s passion for fighting climate change.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Whichever side one takes, the question of a non-white Bond has remained open long enough for Idris Elba to age out of the role.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026

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