How to Use disenfranchise in a Sentence

disenfranchise

verb

• They disenfranchised poor people by making property ownership a requirement for registering to vote.
• Virginia is one of a handful of states that permanently disenfranchises felons.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• That disenfranchised the many Northern voters hostile to slavery.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 1 Nov. 2017
• Proponents of the measure charged that Newsom was simply attempting to disenfranchise the voters.
  — K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
• But by the judge’s own standard, thousands of absentee ballot voters are still being disenfranchised across Florida.
  — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2017
• Debby’s work empowers the powerless, enfranchises the disenfranchised and gives voice to the voiceless.
  — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2017
• This insularity has especially pernicious effects in Camden, where so many have been disenfranchised for so long.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Bob Brady is a vestige of the days when Democrats were aligned with the disenfranchised, the beat cop, the trash guy, the burly Irish bricklayer, and the Italian grandma in a house dress.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Democrats have said the move would disenfranchise some voters.
  — David Eggert, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
• But, of course, this is not about disenfranchising all those voters who came out for Jones.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Jan. 2018
• At least one cat seemed to be disenfranchised in his efforts to enter a polling station.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• The Real crimes are laws that disenfranchise those that have paid their debt to society.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The same study found that one in 13 African-Americans of voting age is disenfranchised, a rate more than four times greater than that of non-African-Americans.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Laws that disenfranchised voters legally sanctioned the violent overthrow of local governments.
  — Domingo Morel / Made By History, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024