Sentence examples for slur I from inspiring English sources

What if our football team's name weren't a slur, I ask brightly.

"Ripped it off a — —" (here he used an ethnic slur) "I blew away in Vietnam".

("Go fuckin' fist yourself" is a creative slur I sadly didn't hear enough of in high school).

I'm half Greek and the only slur I could find about my people was "olive picker," which, honestly, I think is nice.

The President began with some graceful words for Nancy Pelosi, the new (and first female) Speaker of the House, and then spoiled the effect with a reflexive slur: "I congratulate the Democrat majority".

Added Jerry, who is black, speaking about Incognito's alleged use of a racial slur: "I know the type of person he is and I know he don't mean it that way".

There is speculation that it is inherited -- oh, dear! -- and it is ceaselessly, tastelessly referred to, through Rose Randall's intolerant, intolerable, supposedly dotty slurs ("Is Kate still a lesbian?").

Ot took me a while to process the sentiment behind the statements because I don't identify with the slurs I was subjected to.

When the Lib Dem leader spoke angrily last night about what he called "a show trial of innuendo, half truths and slurs" I am told that he was reacting to the suggestion that he knew about serious allegations of abuse and covered them up.

"If Juan Pablo is mine," she slurred, "I'm gonna straddle him every day.

When I heard members of my own sorority using slurs, I wasn't sure how to handle it either.