How to Use discrimination in a Sentence

discrimination

noun

• He sued the company for age discrimination.
• The law prohibits discrimination in hiring.
• And adding to the tragedy is the discrimination and scorn that was heaped upon them.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• But that doesn’t mean clubs are off the hook for claims of discrimination.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
• The root cause of many forms of discrimination is hate grounded in fear of the unknown.
  — Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2021
• The deep down in the bones, the discrimination and the inequity, Google is no different.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
• In many families, race and discrimination are at the top of the list.
  — Fatima Varner, star-telegram, 17 June 2018
• But first, here's your stop-with-the-trans-discrimination week in review, in Haiku.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
• Our health care and our rights to live free from discrimination depend on it.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2018
• Again, the rule of law had to be sacrificed in favor of Arpaio's hard-on for discrimination.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 11 Sep. 2017
• Tupac’s 90s was a hard time, where there was a lot of discrimination.
  — Drew Fortune, VanityFair.com, 13 June 2017
• It’s built on centuries of discrimination and doesn’t stop in one or two years.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2022
• In accordance with the law, any person has the right to take a gender discrimination case to court.
  — Nusmila Lohani, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
• That is blatant discrimination based on the slant of a speaker’s ideas.
  — S.m. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
• To be clear, this case is not one of discrimination, though that word has popped up a lot in opinion pieces about this restaurant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• No one wants to be a member of a party of discrimination.
  — Jennifer Williams, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2018
• The case has stood out because few racial discrimination suits reach French courts.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• The judge noted that the plaintiffs were not able to demonstrate intent of discrimination based on race.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• In the past, such rhetoric has led to violence and discrimination.
  — Meredith Oyen / Made By History, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
• Women face discrimination at work, even in the 21st century, and the research has the receipts to prove it.
  — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Kravitz admitted that this discrimination was a very tough pill to swallow at the time.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 8 Mar. 2022
• Heumann sued for discrimination and won in a landmark case, becoming the first wheelchair user to teach in the city’s schools.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• New York has become the second state to enact a law that bans hair discrimination.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 July 2019
• While mixed-ish is set in the ’80s, natural hair discrimination is still a thing today.
  — EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Don't be racist These days, straight-up racists aside, more insidious forms of discrimination can and do creep in.
  — Nick Levine, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
• The women told tales of discrimination both overt and subtle.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 June 2017
• The judge only let the gender discrimination claim stand and questioned whether the school district's hair length rule causes more harm than good.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
• And there are several reasons that seems to go from poverty, to discrimination, to poor care for this group of women.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• The outreach also reflects the political rise of Michigan's Yemeni American community, which has struggled for years to gain recognition by Democrats, and at times facing discrimination.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
• The company has also been sued for the upcharge on discrimination grounds because around one-third of Americans — disproportionately people of color — have difficulty digesting lactose, a sugar found in milk.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024