How to Use discrimination in a Sentence

discrimination

noun
  • He sued the company for age discrimination.
  • The law prohibits discrimination in hiring.
  • And adding to the tragedy is the discrimination and scorn that was heaped upon them.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean clubs are off the hook for claims of discrimination.
    oregonlive, 26 June 2020
  • The root cause of many forms of discrimination is hate grounded in fear of the unknown.
    Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The deep down in the bones, the discrimination and the inequity, Google is no different.
    Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
  • In many families, race and discrimination are at the top of the list.
    Fatima Varner, star-telegram, 17 June 2018
  • But first, here's your stop-with-the-trans-discrimination week in review, in Haiku.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Our health care and our rights to live free from discrimination depend on it.
    Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Again, the rule of law had to be sacrificed in favor of Arpaio's hard-on for discrimination.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Tupac’s 90s was a hard time, where there was a lot of discrimination.
    Drew Fortune, VanityFair.com, 13 June 2017
  • It’s built on centuries of discrimination and doesn’t stop in one or two years.
    Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2022
  • In accordance with the law, any person has the right to take a gender discrimination case to court.
    Nusmila Lohani, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
  • That is blatant discrimination based on the slant of a speaker’s ideas.
    S.m. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
  • To be clear, this case is not one of discrimination, though that word has popped up a lot in opinion pieces about this restaurant.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
  • No one wants to be a member of a party of discrimination.
    Jennifer Williams, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2018
  • The case has stood out because few racial discrimination suits reach French courts.
    Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
  • The judge noted that the plaintiffs were not able to demonstrate intent of discrimination based on race.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Kravitz admitted that this discrimination was a very tough pill to swallow at the time.
    Rivea Ruff, Essence, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Heumann sued for discrimination and won in a landmark case, becoming the first wheelchair user to teach in the city’s schools.
    Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • New York has become the second state to enact a law that bans hair discrimination.
    Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 July 2019
  • While mixed-ish is set in the ’80s, natural hair discrimination is still a thing today.
    EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Don't be racist These days, straight-up racists aside, more insidious forms of discrimination can and do creep in.
    Nick Levine, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The women told tales of discrimination both overt and subtle.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 June 2017
  • And there are several reasons that seems to go from poverty, to discrimination, to poor care for this group of women.
    CBS News, 3 July 2022
  • It can be used to describe a broad range of discrimination against female consumers.
    Murphy Zhao, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Many people claimed the men were subject to racial discrimination.
    Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • Of course there was high discrimination during that time.
    Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
  • No visas, no passports, no discrimination based on a person’s race or wealth.
    Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • At the university there seemed to be no racial discrimination at all.
    John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020

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