On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Nigger. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as nigga or negro and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Nigger meaning
- A black person; a person of black African descent.
- A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves).
Using Nigger
- The main meaning on this page is: A black person; a person of black African descent. | A black person; a person of black African descent. | A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves).
- Useful related words include: nigga, negro, blackamoor, black person.
- Possible Dutch translations are: nikker, neger, roetmop.
- In the example corpus, nigger often appears in combinations such as: word nigger, nigger in, nigger is.
Context around Nigger
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nigger
- In this selection, "nigger" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, say, used, case, island, ilsand and fantasy stand out and add context to how "nigger" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include t say nigger that hurts and 1974 used nigger to ridicule. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nigger" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nigger
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you, backfires. (11 words)
By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. (11 words)
As John Lennon once sang, woman is the nigger of the world. (12 words)
Billy Ray Johnson Billy Ray Johnson, a black, mentally disabled man, was taken by four white males to a party where he was knocked unconscious then dropped on his head, referred to as a " nigger ", and left bleeding in a ditch. (41 words)
McLane, Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast Vol. I at p. 124 It had a baseball team, who wore uniforms emblazoned with "Nigger Island" (or in one case, "Nigger Ilsand") citation Some renamings honor a real person. (37 words)
Homophones Niger main (Latin for "black") occurs in Latinate scientific nomenclature and is the root word for some homophones of nigger; sellers of niger seed (used as bird feed), sometimes use the spelling Nyjer seed. (35 words)
Williams said he jumped out of the car and said, “Who the fuck are you calling a dumb nigger? (19 words)
Me and my niggers will be robbing your fucking houses,my nigger Eddie Kavaza got a gun,i got a gun,we will gun down your foreign ass.peace y’all! (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
McLane, Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast Vol. I at p. 124 It had a baseball team, who wore uniforms emblazoned with "Nigger Island" (or in one case, "Nigger Ilsand") citation Some renamings honor a real person.
This is the county where Chancellor L. B. Porter threatened me in the courtroom and called me a “nigger” in May 1970.
As John Lennon once sang, woman is the nigger of the world.
Furthermore, the “negro problem” was actually a “white problem,” as it was they who invented the “nigger” fantasy, and they who were continually tormented by it.
By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you, backfires.
By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires.
He’s your typical oppressing nigger, the kind the blames others for their own oppression on his own people.
Me and my niggers will be robbing your fucking houses,my nigger Eddie Kavaza got a gun,i got a gun,we will gun down your foreign ass.peace y’all!
This corrupt big Oranatan headed nigger is a corrupt PLP in FNM clothing; he doesn’t deserve shit.
Williams said he jumped out of the car and said, “Who the fuck are you calling a dumb nigger?
By the masses white Bahamians and foreigners are leaving this filthy crime ridden nigger ghetto dump.
After "nigger Jim" appears in Albert Bigelow Paine 's 1912 Clemens biography, it continued to be used by twentieth century critics, including Leslie Fiedler, Norman Mailer, and Russell Baker.
After the film's release, he said, he received many letters of complaint about the frequent "nigger" references; "..
At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to nigger.
Billy Ray Johnson Billy Ray Johnson, a black, mentally disabled man, was taken by four white males to a party where he was knocked unconscious then dropped on his head, referred to as a " nigger ", and left bleeding in a ditch.
Cinema The movie Blazing Saddles (1974) used nigger to ridicule US racism.
For its presumed association with African-American music, the quartet was referred to until the 1950s with nicknames such as "Negro Quartet" and "Nigger Quartet" before being called the "American Quartet".
For many years, due to a lack of a formal name, the intersection was known as "Nigger Corners".
Fuhrman excused his use of the word saying he used nigger in the context of his " bad cop " persona.
Homophones Niger main (Latin for "black") occurs in Latinate scientific nomenclature and is the root word for some homophones of nigger; sellers of niger seed (used as bird feed), sometimes use the spelling Nyjer seed.
Common combinations with nigger
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- word nigger 6×
- nigger in 4×
- nigger is 4×
- the nigger 3×
- as nigger 3×
- and nigger 3×
- of nigger 3×
- say nigger 2×
- nigger that 2×
- nigger the 2×