How to Use disenfranchised in a Sentence

disenfranchised

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• Yet right across the street, in the shadow of the state capitol, sit some of the state’s most disenfranchised citizens.
  — Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
• The government did not allow the miners to own land on the goldfields, or to vote, so the town was a tent city of the disenfranchised, marked by noise, mine shafts and flags marking different enclaves.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The sum resembles Rage Against the Machine's disenfranchised fury.
  — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• The disenfranchised resort to aggressive tactics in a desperate attempt to be heard and are cast as the bully.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• With the latter, as with the pandemic response, the rhetoric is that children, arguably the most disenfranchised group in the world, are responsible for keeping us all safe.
  — The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• In today’s world of seismic upheaval and change, there are often winners and losers, with the most disenfranchised people too often bearing the cost.
  — Laura Tilghman, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2022
• Her tongue is light but her words heavy, telling stories with real emotional heft about the disenfranchised members of her community and the dangers of the street.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• When the lawsuit was filed, Black people made up 21% of the voting-age population of North Carolina, but over 42% of those disenfranchised.
  — USA Today, 25 July 2023
• Even with all of what happened to the Black community, my people, one of the most disenfranchised groups in this country, took on the task of dragging America toward progress.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• The legal thriller will follow four women lawyers who fight for disenfranchised underdogs, going to great lengths to solve brutal crimes.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Dec. 2021
• Public records in Brazil are chaotic, particularly among the poor and the disenfranchised.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Of that, women of color and gender-expansive folks are even more disenfranchised.
  — Lauren Sato, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• Soon, the movement mushroomed organically around the country as years of frustrations and anger boiled over among the disenfranchised youth.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 25 Oct. 2020
• Heap: What’s abundantly clear to any honest observer is that voters are disenfranchised and have lost trust in our elections.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• But like rock, hip-hop has provided a key platform for disenfranchised young people who otherwise had little or no voice — and little or no options to be seen and heard.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The district, Williams added, wants to make sure everyone is included, especially those who are the most disenfranchised.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• If someone like Zach, who was so engaged with his care, could have such a profound misunderstanding of the course of his disease, what about more disenfranchised and marginalized patients?
  — S. Monica Soni, STAT, 6 Sep. 2022
• Pictures of sick kids, animals, the disenfranchised and troubled are compelling and force people to pause and (hopefully) engage.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• The film, which is set to start shooting in northeastern Italy on Aug. 7, centers on an aging countess (Shammah) who sets up a new type of school with a group of disenfranchised yet gifted children in her spacious villa.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• On a deeper level, the P.D. has seemed unable to craft a coherent and passionate message that speaks to the millions of Italians who have fallen behind, feel disenfranchised, and have heard the siren call of populism.
  — Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
• Regardless of the outcome, many members of Central would feel disenfranchised.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 25 Feb. 2023
• The panel ruled the group is entitled to move forward with its claim, and said the remaining issue of whether the disenfranchised votes were sufficient to change the outcome of the election is for the Superior Court to determine.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
• In a speech, King emphasized the connection between the United States’ civil rights battle and the struggles of poor and disenfranchised people worldwide, a message that resonated with the crowd.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Many researchers and activists believe that the punishment of women who gossip under the guise of immorality was just an attempt to suppress the voices of the disenfranchised.
  — Alice Porter, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2024
• For the disenfranchised, writing one’s own story has never been as simple as stringing together life-defining events on a kind of grail quest for self-acceptance and healing.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Democrats have accused them of trying to keep disenfranchised people from exercising their rights.
  — Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Tucked beside railroad tracks that course through gnarly woods, the encampment harbors the disenfranchised and distrusting, the addicted and the unwell, the vulnerable and the predatory.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• The working groups turned in a draft over the summer, which was quickly praised by left-leaning groups as more inclusive and representative of disenfranchised groups than the 2010 iteration.
  — Edward McKinley, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The neighborhood of Dasht-e Barchi where Saturday’s bombings occurred is one of Kabul’s most disenfranchised areas.
  — Ehsanullah Amiri, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• Muslims make up only around ten percent of Kenya’s population, and the group has a legitimate reason to feel disenfranchised.
  — Paul Hidalgo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2014

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024