How to Use disaffect in a Sentence

disaffect

verb

• Some of the MILF’s younger members are said to be disaffected with its ageing leadership.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Bryn Mawr has been picking up clients disaffected by larger banks.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• There’s nostalgia there in part because so many people have been disaffected by the [Sirleaf] regime.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2017
• And for the seasonally disaffected among us, that glorious big bang can’t come soon enough.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Simon’s been disaffected with Negan’s leadership for a while now.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Mr. de Blasio had been facing a campaign for re-election next year in a climate in which white voters, particularly in the brownstone Brooklyn precincts that first elected him, were disaffected by his performance.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2016
• In their run to the last four, England re-engaged with a fanbase disaffected by decades of failure at international tournaments, most notably in a humiliating exit to Iceland at Euro 2016.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Much has been made of Trump’s ties to prosperity gospel-preaching televangelists, and his own wealth and success as something to which disaffected working-class people might aspire, however irrationally.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
• Many militants are disaffected by poverty and unemployment, and some have reportedly traveled to regional countries, including Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia, for religious or military training, according to a study released last month in Maputo.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• These techniques resonate with a generation disaffected by conventional politics.
  — Jill Stewart, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2004

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