How to Use disbelieve in a Sentence

disbelieve

verb

• Several jurors disbelieved the witness's testimony.
• For their part, the Spurs did their best to disbelieve it.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2021
• Some disbelieving piece of you can’t stop going back over the past.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• Trump wants voters to forget about or disbelieve the facts of the pandemic.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2020
• The courts were almost twice as likely to disbelieve the mothers’ claims of abuse in those scenarios.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2021
• The trauma of it all led him to write a lengthy letter to Pope Francis in 2015 detailing the abuse — only to have the pontiff disbelieve him.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
• Now the disbelieving Novoa was caught between two forces of nature.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• In woven leather, the shoes are expertly crafted, but will get you some disbelieving stares on the street.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• Meaning, Trump has convinced his devotees to disbelieve their own eyes and ears.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 26 July 2021
• Tens of millions of voters were willing to disbelieve the media.
  — WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• With a disbelieving forward baring down on goal with Neuer, Higuain snatched at the shot however, and scuffed his shot wide.
  — SI.com, 14 June 2018
• When her disbelieving parents banish Pet, Jam and the creature team up in secret to hunt the monster.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• John was very active in throwing his body between us and, at that point, a disbelieving Disney.
  — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• The system has been designed to disbelieve them, the veterans complain.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
• Ahmed al-Kilani walked the camp in a disbelieving daze one recent evening, just 24 hours after his arrival in Europe.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
• Yet, 16 of the 17 people who reported brain fog in our study described feeling disbelieved.
  — Emily Mendenhall, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• Voters seem to believe a reporter and disbelieve a politician.
  — David E. Clementson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2021
• Clinton is displaying, a self that will be embraced by some and disbelieved by others.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• Less clear is precisely which 10 to 30 percent should be disbelieved.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• Ready to disbelieve That Kaysing’s conspiracy theory took hold in mid-1970s America is in large part due to a wider crisis of trust in the country at the time.
  — Peter Knight, Quartz, 11 July 2019
• Others choose to simply disbelieve the harmfulness of lead.
  — Martin Schiavenato, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
• The crowd, disbelieving, yelled and stared at Ledecka, encouraging her to emote.
  — Barry Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
• Perhaps that desire to believe that all is well is one of the reasons that people are so inclined to disbelieve women who come forward to speak about their assault.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2018
• The rest of the respondents either disbelieved both men or were undecided.
  — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
• The stadium fell silent with anticipation, and then rather than an eruption, a disbelieving groan filled the air.
  — SI.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Bates is marvelous as the baffled but never disbelieving foot soldier who is the link between the worlds of sanity and madness, whichever is which.
  — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• If Schitt’s Creek were still airing, the Rose family would own several of these and be forced to explain their value to disbelieving locals.
  — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
• Meier’s study found that when fathers claim alienation, courts are more than twice as likely to disbelieve mothers’ claims of abuse — either child abuse or abuse against the mother — than if the father made no alienation claim.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• Rarely in history has a president so efficiently trained the public to disbelieve him as a matter of course.
  — Lili Loofbourow, The Week, 13 Nov. 2017
• Because so many of them have come to disbelieve anything Israeli officials say, there is a reflex to discount reports of atrocities or hostage testimonies.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024