How to Use disavow in a Sentence

disavow

verb

• She now seems to be trying to disavow her earlier statements.
• He disavowed the actions of his subordinates.
• These days, the man who coined the catchphrase disavows it.
  — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
• At the same time, his campaign declined to disavow the ads.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• By the time the case reached the Supreme Court, though, the government had disavowed the theory.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Ethan and his buddies have been disavowed quite a few times.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• But the man who discovered him is not ready to disavow him.
  — Aliya S. King, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2019
• Targets of the pranksters rushed to disavow the bogus statements.
  — Ryan Mac, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• The statement was quickly disavowed by both Trump and the campaign.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
• And some in her own party are scrambling to disavow her.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• Cox said, calling on Villaraigosa to disavow the flood of harsh ads and mailers.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• Campbell on Tuesday asked Janey to disavow the first negative ad of the race.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The book says Trump's staff begged and pleaded with him to publicly disavow the violence at the Capitol.
  — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 28 June 2021
• The judge says Nassar didn't authorize the statements and has disavowed them.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Any Republican who wants my vote in the future is going to have to publicly disavow the lies and the liars.
  — Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Harris and Hirono, Sasse said, had crossed a line by asking Buescher to disavow the Knights.
  — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2020
• Lenny’s passport was revoked, and he was forced to disavow the party in order to travel to La Scala.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• As news of the Byrd’s death spread, members of the KKK came to town to disavow connection to the killing with speeches laced with racist vitriol.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• The right must disavow its extremists or be destroyed by them.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• If Trump goes down, he’ll be disavowed, and then Republicans will come back and try the exact same thing over again.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
• Most of all, Bobby’s politics conflict with JFK’s and his fringe views have caused his cousins to disavow him.
  — Barbara Lippert, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
• Mia doesn’t exactly disavow it as much as claims that G is fully aware.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• Others expressly disavowed the new blue badge, which seemed to them anything but cool.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Trump’s campaign has had to disavow Nazi symbology in the past.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
• Listen to this article Richard Simmons has come out of seclusion to disavow the Pauly Shore film project based on his life.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
• The e-mail is almost as troubling as his interview—and will be harder to disavow.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• British officials contacted Hill, urging her to get the White House to have Trump pull down his tweets and disavow them.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
• One version of the bill, which Democrats later disavowed, would have required current owners of the rifles to turn them in or face felony charges.
  — Denise Lavoie, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2020
• When this house of cards comes crashing down, the rats will be scurrying around disavowing their support of Trump.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
• The nation has disavowed the moral sins of slavery and institutional discrimination, but any lingering effects of those sins must be combatted.
  — John Hatzis, National Review, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024