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Example sentences for "coloured people"

  • In every large city both white and coloured people told me that race feeling and discrimination were rapidly increasing: that new and more difficult problems were constantly arising.

  • A strong prejudice exists against renting flats and houses in many white neighbourhoods to coloured people.

  • But we, (coloured people) and our children are brutes!

  • He told me that there were in New Orleans two Baptist Churches of coloured people, presided over by faithful and devoted pastors of their own colour.

  • During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South.

  • Miss Davidson again began the work of securing in various ways small contributions for the new building from the white and coloured people in and near Tuskegee.

  • A teacher, minister or physician could hardly have, aside from his mental and moral qualities, a more effective passport to the confidence and respect of coloured people.

  • Thriving neighbourhoods of coloured people promise to come into existence, for "the South is not shutting the industrial door, or the educational door, or the church or the house door on the negro.

  • There are now some ten million coloured people in the Southern States, but at the time in question there were less than half of this number.

  • I question whether among all the educated coloured people in the United States you can find six, if we except those from the institutions named, who have received anything like a thorough training in agriculture.

  • Your member of Parliament has stated that in Kimberley our people are a credit to the district, and the most advanced and progressive Coloured people in South Africa.

  • With it there was a request by a meeting of coloured people at Calvinia and adjacent districts near the German frontier asking for arms.

  • Everything is very good, my waiter is German, and the greater part of the servants seem to be coloured people.

  • He has a holy horror of everything approaching to amalgamation; and of all the men I ever met, cherishes the most unchristian prejudice against coloured people.

  • Either you must live exclusively amongst coloured people, or go to the whites and remain with them.

  • But then on the other hand, remember what George said respecting the coloured people themselves; what a pleasant social circle they form, and how intelligent many of them are!

  • His words were: "The English text of the treaty says 'natives' and does not say 'coloured people.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coloured people" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but would; cause death; colonial possessions; coloured clothes; coloured coat; coloured flowers; coloured frontispiece; coloured glass; coloured hair; coloured paper; coloured silks; coloured velvet; common nature; dear minister; double track; good repair; heavy fine; know only; literary career; naval cadet; not believe; other things being equal; say unto; shall read; took the; when they had come