How to Use disenfranchised in a Sentence

disenfranchised

adjective

• 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
• 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
• More than 40% of them have already completed their sentence but remain disenfranchised.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• Toward the end of the 1880s, strikes broke out across the United States, and disenfranchised laborers regrouped and reorganized labor and communities.
  — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• In the film, a disenfranchised worker falls in love with communism and a woman who isn't his wife, loses his politics along the way, commits adultery more than once and ends up single, the father (or father figure) of a few children.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024