How to Use dehumanize in a Sentence

dehumanize

verb

• Inspectors have observed terrible factory conditions that dehumanize workers.
• The Cubans stressed that a guard’s job was to dehumanize the prisoner.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Oct. 2021
• One of the things the Army taught was dehumanizing the enemy.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Price said the suspect dehumanized her son and his friends.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• As part of their tribute to the dehumanized — the imprisoned, lost, and enslaved — Khoza puts their own body on the line.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
• And the hostages have been dehumanized every day since.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• This word has been used to dehumanize my people for over 150 years.
  — Sharareh Drury, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2019
• To march is to assert your humanity, to shove it in the face of those who would try to dehumanize you.
  — The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• Black trans women are working to build power, to change the laws that leave them out, and to shift the culture that dehumanizes them.
  — Alicia Garza, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
• The famed rap group N.W.A has a library of records that dehumanize and marginalize black people.
  — Jason Whitlock, WSJ, 24 July 2017
• It has been used to dehumanize and now it's sold as a signifier of cool.
  — Stereo Williams, Billboard, 24 May 2018
• To so dehumanize other people, and see them as just a number on a ledger. .
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 30 Sep. 2017
• The Nazis were trying break people down along racial lines, to dehumanize them, and strip away their common bonds.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 26 July 2019
• That movement pushed back, in part, against the unchecked use of A.I., which, the strikers argued, threatens to dehumanize the creative work force.
  — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The trope has often been used to dehumanize non-White people.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• In the process both men and women have been degraded and dehumanized.
  — WSJ, 20 June 2017
• Breland-Noble adds that the videos dehumanize the people in them.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Buddhist monks, moral arbiters in a pious land, have been at the forefront of a campaign to dehumanize the Rohingya.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The word was used as a colonial term to dehumanize and demean Native women in the United States and Canada.
  — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
• There’s so many things in the system that are set up to demoralize and dehumanize the residents.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2021
• What’s even more evocative of Nazi practice in the migrant transports is the GOP’s effort to dehumanize its victims.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• This is part of a systemic approach to dehumanizing black women and girls.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2018
• In one of the film's painful moments, Marina is dehumanized by being forced to show her genitals to the police.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• In fact, some of Donald Trump’s favorite immigrants to dehumanize are teenage boys – namely, the junior members of the street gang MS-13.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2018
• America sought to use the Black body as property, to dehumanize us to be used as currency.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• And the last one is that AI should augment and humanize humans, not automate and dehumanize.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• Maslach became interested in how people dehumanize others, which in turn led her to study job burnout, the thrust of her research for years.
  — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014
• At the end of that meeting, executives agreed to draft a policy about dehumanizing speech and open it to the public for comments.
  — Kate Conger, New York Times, 9 July 2019
• If one group is dehumanized, no one is safe from dehumanization.
  — Desmond Meade, TIME, 23 July 2024
• The scene is a clear statement on the alienating, dehumanizing effects of outsourcing the emotional labor of personal writing.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024