Sample sentences for STEREOTYPE

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Definition

to classify someone or something with an oversimplified set of characteristics — especially incorrectly

or:

someone or something representing such a classification

She has me stereotyped as a football jock.

stereotyped = classified in a common, but oversimplified manner

I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European
At that age, I was a stereotypical spoiled brat.
My grandparents didn't people of different races and religions. They had all kinds of crazy stereotypes.
From his camps by the water pockets or the canyons or high on the timbered ridges of Navajo Mountain he wrote long, lush, enthusiastic letters to his family and friends, damning the stereotypes of civilization, chanting his barbaric adolescent yawp into the teeth of the world.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

stereotypes = simplistic classifications

If you did, then you allowed white America to go right on believing in the stereotype.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

stereotype = an oversimplified set of characteristics used to classify people — especially incorrectly

Stereotypes of color, race, and gender are slowly disappearing.
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

stereotypes = an oversimplified set of characteristics used to classify people — especially incorrectly

We just can't get past the stereotype of the dumb jock.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

stereotype = an oversimplified set of characteristics used to classify people — especially incorrectly

But the stereotype isn't a good fit.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

stereotype = simplistic classification

McCandless didn't conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

stereotype = simplistic classification

It would be easy to stereotype Christopher McCandless as another boy who felt too much, a loopy young man who read too many books and lacked even a modicum of common sense.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

stereotype = simplistically classify

It wasn't in any obvious, stereotypical way, but he was my best friend and I knew him better than anyone.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
Straightway a meeting was called among the colored people, under the stereotyped notice, "Business of importance!"
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"What are you complaining of?' asked Philip coldly, with the stereotyped phrase used in the out-patients' room.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Otherwise, traditional stereotypes about immigrants would persist.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
There's an old stereotype that says that Lusians are as subtle as a stomach pump and about half as pleasant.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
I had just one bad day at Harvard, but only because I lived up to my own stereotype.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
It gives me permission to say stereotypical things about white girls.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
But they became stereotyped, pillared, and pompous up at the top fronting the main road.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
This is the form that racial and ethnic stereotypes take.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

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