stereotype

In a sentence

Six example sentences with stereotype, each labelled with its topic.

• The film opens with the tired stereotype of the absent minded professor and spends two hours dismantling it.

  Movies

• Students who read the profile first judged the same essay more harshly, showing how quickly a stereotype colors a grade.

  Psychology

• Jazz critics keep repeating the stereotype of the self destructive genius, which flatters nobody and describes almost no working musician.

  Music

• The stereotype of the founder in a hoodie hides the fact that most successful companies are started by people over forty.

  Startups

• The stereotype of the big man who cannot shoot died the season three centers finished in the top ten for threes.

  Basketball

• The novel plays with the stereotype of the wicked stepmother, then gives her the only kind heart in the house.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• refute
• scheme
• sophisticated
• drafting
• availability
• accumulate
• corporation
• consensus
• unstable
• contradictory
• primary
• appendix