How to Use disadvantaged in a Sentence

disadvantaged

adjective

• The program provides aid for economically disadvantaged groups.
• His audience is largely composed of disadvantaged young people who are on a path toward drugs, gangs and crime.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
• For decades, planners and politicians have spent money to carve highways through disadvantaged neighborhoods.
  — Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
• The event celebrated a global campaign to help disadvantaged youth.
  — Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 13 July 2022
• Despite this, advocates said the ruling puts disadvantaged communities at risk of greater harm due to the effects of climate change and air pollution.
  — Drew Costley, ajc, 1 July 2022
• Growing up with more hardships, those from disadvantaged class backgrounds also tend to become skilled at identifying barriers to success.
  — Jessi Streib, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• Despite this, advocates said the ruling puts disadvantaged communities at risk of greater harm because of the effects of climate change and air pollution.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
• And the results show there has been little progress over the last decade, with almost no change in the gap between the persistently disadvantaged and their peers.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• The central mission in both cities was to help disadvantaged students.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• The proceeds from the sale will go to The Prince's Trust charity, which was founded by the King to support young people from disadvantaged communities.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• The youth center, which has seven offices around the city, works to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022
• The two peoples account for 3.2% of the Australian population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic group.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• Around the world, people breathing the most toxic air are consistently the poorest and most disadvantaged.
  — Lauren Gravitz, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• There is overwhelming evidence that a child who cannot read by the third grade is more likely to become the adult parent who can’t read – and therefore disadvantaged for life.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2023
• At least 40% of the money would be required to be spent in disadvantaged communities, which often have the fewest acres of parks and green space and the highest levels of air pollution.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• No one from the transportation department reached out directly to disadvantaged and rural places to tell them about the money.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Here’s the thing: There have always been deserving schools and fans pushed aside or left behind, left out, disrespected and disadvantaged.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Or the Prince's Trust, has supported over a million young people, many from disadvantaged back to realize their own missions.
  — Town & Country, 8 May 2023
• Jefferson County Public Schools has received the largest gift in its history, according to the district, with plans to invest the funds in some of the city’s most disadvantaged schools.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• But high school graduation tests have fallen out of favor across the country over concerns that the mandates hurt disadvantaged teenagers.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Dorothy and Anna traveled as a pair to Italy and elsewhere, later co-founded a clinic for disadvantaged children in London, and would cohabit for the rest of their lives.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• She was shocked at the portion of NaNo’s statement that seemed to equate being economically disadvantaged to needing to consult an AI for help.
  — Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• In Cambodia, a circus employing disadvantaged youth is helping break the cycle of poverty and renew arts that were nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge regime.
  — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2023
• The fears triggered by shootings and explosions in disadvantaged neighborhoods have made crime one of the most pressing issues for Swedish voters.
  — Vanessa Gera, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
• Jefferson County Public Schools has received the largest gift in its history, according to the district, with plans to invest the funds in some of Louisville's most disadvantaged schools.
  — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2022
• At the same time, mounting evidence has emphasized the harm children suffer by growing up in disadvantaged places.
  — Jason Deparle Bobby Altman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• After the government passed the bill that critics said disadvantaged Muslims, Kashyap made headlines by joining a massive protest in Mumbai.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• The agency has not yet determined how much of that expense will be passed along to its 4 million ratepayers — roughly half of whom live in disadvantaged communities.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Neither Brown or Thompson ever entered a bank, instead using disadvantaged teenagers to commit the crimes.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• For example, 33% percent of students considered economically disadvantaged tested at or above grade level for English language arts.
  — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024