How to Use hate crime in a Sentence

hate crime

noun
  • The McMichaels and Bryan had pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
    — Russ Bynum, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The McMichaels and Bryan have pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
    — Russ Bynum, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The McMichaels and Bryan pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges in May.
    — Russ Bynum, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • This led some who live on the block to believe the fires were a hate crime.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Two of the teens’ charges had a hate crime enhancement.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The shooter of two Jewish men in L.A. agrees to plead guilty to hate crimes.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Many of the women who will rest at this site were victims of hate crimes.
    — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The alleged hate crime is the latest in a string of incidents in the city.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Intolerance and hate crimes are on the rise in the U.S. and beyond.
    — Keeley Teslik, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That’s more than half the total number of hate crimes against any and all groups.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • As of Thursday, the 25-year-old suspect has not been accused of a hate crime.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But amid the rise in hate crimes, a small group of activists has vowed to continue its work.
    — John Humphrey Agaba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
  • She was charged with assault as a hate crime, and other charges, the complaint states.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Rabbi Chanukov adamantly claims that this was a hate crime.
    — Matteo Cina, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And – and lunar new year, is this possibly a hate crime?
    — ABC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Lynch has not been charged in connection with that crime, nor has he been charged with a hate crime.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And so when those of us heard about this shooting, the first thing that came to our minds was, was this an anti-Asian hate crime?
    — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Gendron, 19, was indicted last week on the hate crime charges and weapons counts.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 July 2022
  • These killings have not yet been deemed hate crimes by officials.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • His charges include first-degree murder and two counts of hate crimes.
    — Zohreen Shah, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • At the time of their departures, hate crimes were spiking in the city amid fallout from the Israel-Hamas war.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Fields is serving a life sentence for murder and hate crimes.
    — Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • Police told him the incident didn’t rise to the level of a hate crime so they were left to choose whether to pull their child from school.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In the end, the prosecutors couldn’t convict the murderer of a hate crime.
    — The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This week, a grand jury classified the shooting as a hate crime.
    — Staff Author Published, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The state is one of only two in the U.S. that does not have hate crime legislation signed into law.
    — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The federal hate crime charges were announced last month.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 July 2022
  • With the recent rise in Asian American hate crimes around the United States, this book is a timely must-read.
    — Saleah Blancaflor, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Dylann Roof, who is white, was convicted and sentenced to death for nine murders and hate crimes.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The group has created a Change.org petition demanding Hensel be charged with a hate crime, which has since garnered more than 3,000 signatures.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2025

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