How to Use disenfranchise in a Sentence

disenfranchise

verb

• They disenfranchised poor people by making property ownership a requirement for registering to vote.
• But on the face of it, rule 14.B seems to disenfranchise many voters.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
• Stay in your lane, and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
• Democrats have said the move would disenfranchise some voters.
  — David Eggert, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
• At least one cat seemed to be disenfranchised in his efforts to enter a polling station.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• Democrats have said such a move would disenfranchise some voters.
  — David Eggert, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
• Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had so damaged the count it must be set aside.
  — Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had damaged the count so much that it must be set aside.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
• Trump said her actions disenfranchised voters in Maine, and were part of a broader effort to keep him off the ballot.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The hundreds of thousands of blacks who had registered to vote would be disenfranchised.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• That would give Nissan the right to acquire Renault shares in order to disenfranchise Renault or take it over, he is said to have written in the memo.
  — Reed Stevenson, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2020
• Bike lanes could work, but not using 10-year-old plans that have disenfranchised many with the same old goals and claims as their only currency.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
• Democrats say the exercise is a GOP plot to disenfranchise Atlanta.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
• Democrats feared the move would disenfranchise thousands of voters.
  — Scott Bauer, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2020
• Section 259 is a relic of the poll taxes used to disenfranchise Black voters.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 3 Mar. 2022
• However, in the South, Jim Crow laws would disenfranchise Black men from voting through poll taxes and other means for decades to come.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• The deeper point is that in the contemporary United States, with such wide and ready access to the ballot, changes around the edges don’t disenfranchise people.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 Mar. 2021
• The changes — and concerns that those changes were an effort to disenfranchise voters — have still left voters worried.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2020
• The case drew a number of unlikely allies and the court quickly declined to disenfranchise the group — but impacted voters still aren't out of the woods.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
• Many of the commenters accused them of trying to disenfranchise Black voters in Detroit.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2020
• The sixth, adopted in 1901 mainly to disenfranchise former slaves and their descendants, still governs the state.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 28 Nov. 2019
• Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
• This was meant to ensure that even the most catastrophic of postal snafus won’t disenfranchise mail-in voters.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
• Critics say the moves, at the least, would disenfranchise marginalized students, staff and faculty in Newberg schools.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2021
• While disenfranchising felons is still constitutional, almost half of the states in the last 20 years have expanded a felon’s right to vote in some way.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2020
• Much of the fight involved proposals to change election law that Democrats said threatened to disenfranchise voters.
  — Dallas News, 23 May 2021
• Campbell points out that Bearden came of age at a time when the political efforts to disenfranchise African-Americans used the arts and the printing press as weapons.
  — Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Instead, some see it as a ploy to disenfranchise voters in the nation's largest majority-Black city.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2022
• State and election officials from across the country issued a warning Wednesday that ongoing concerns with the country's mail system could disenfranchise voters.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024