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Definition of "race riot" []

  • A riot caused by racial hatred or dissension. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "race riot" in a sentence
  • "There is a strange ghostlike way an observer can walk unseen through the middle of a race riot simply by not being involved."
  • "Dante, being a good person who felt exactly the same way about that stupid fight — which the prosecution has shamelessly blown up into a mini race riot — immediately agreed to meet Feifer later that night."
  • "He taught at Scarritt, and he almost single handedly prevented a race riot at Fisk by calling a judge, the Governor, and other prominent people and telling them not to send the police or interfere with what was happening."
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