How to Use discriminate in a Sentence

discriminate

verb

• The school is not allowed to discriminate.
• At the end of the day, fans are discriminating about having a connection to human artists.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Tucker, a Black man, also accuses school officials of discriminating against him based on his race.
  — Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
• For the wine drinker who does not discriminate, the Glasvin Universal Wine Glass is the best universal wine glass.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
• The College Board disagreed that the tests discriminate.
  — Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• During the hearing, Borg-Neal, who is White, failed to convince the judges that he was discriminated against on account of his race.
  — Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• However, there is one thing that is precious to all and does not discriminate: time.
  — Isabella Sullivan, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
• Black hair has been policed, mocked and used as a mechanism to discriminate.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• Skin cancer is not just a threat to light-skinned people Skin cancer does not discriminate.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• The firm warned that the commission could face a lawsuit that claimed the map discriminated against non-Latino voters.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• The show reflects the range of portraiture and the ways the art form has been used to discriminate and enforce hierarchies across gender, race and class.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• This data can be used by third parties to profile you, target you with ads or discriminate against you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
• The case involves the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2, which outlaws election rules that discriminate on the basis of race.
  — Greg Stohr Bloomberg News (tns), al, 4 Oct. 2022
• The right answer to stop discrimination on the basis of race, as John Roberts said it, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
• In the other, the court ruled the ID law was intended to discriminate against voters of color, who were more likely to struggle to meet the new requirements.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
• The restaurant operated with a come-one, come-all attitude, and did not discriminate against the dressed down.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 6 Oct. 2022
• Their Jazz Club scent is technically a men's cologne, but good smells don't discriminate.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 17 Oct. 2023
• Efforts to suppress, censor, discriminate against, and erase any person put us all at risk.
  — Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
• Plaintiffs don’t even have to prove any intent to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.
  — Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
• California already has a law on the books that says a landlord cannot discriminate based on source of income, such as a housing voucher.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Dismantle school standards that have been used to discriminate against Black children and their culture.
  — Tiffany Eve Lawrence, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
• The fear and frustration of writing doesn’t discriminate.
  — Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2022
• This isn’t the first time she’s been detained for speaking out against the Iranian government, which for decades has enforced strict rules that discriminate against women.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• Alley cats do not lie and discriminate and encourage hate.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
• And in 2015, Kung Fu Saloon paid a small fine to the city and issued an apology after a customer complained that the Uptown bar had discriminated against him because of his race.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Without preclearance, states are now free to discriminate at will.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
• All participants performed a task whereby they were asked to discriminate between different shades of blue on a scale from one to 20.
  — New Atlas, 25 July 2024
• If it is allowed to remain, the city can't discriminate against any other religious organization that wants to get a permit and put a display in the park.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2022
• Tax breaks for renewable companies were so generous that the EU accused the U.S. of discriminating against companies in the bloc.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 17 Nov. 2023
• In other words, people can discriminate against adult film actors.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024