How to Use underprivileged in a Sentence

underprivileged

adjective

• Astrid went to a school for underprivileged children, where her scores were among the lowest in the class.
  — Anne Sugar, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Dawg City plans to hire underprivileged teens and young adults.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2021
• Many black and brown women and those who are underprivileged will die because of this.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2022
• He was raised in a housing project in the underprivileged exurb of Trappes, 20 miles west of Paris, one of seven children.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 8 June 2021
• The results for the underprivileged and those who couldn’t afford lawyers have been immense.
  — Annie Brown, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• Winfrey opened a school for underprivileged girls in South Africa in 2007.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2021
• The grant added to the other scholarships that have been awarded in Aaron’s name to underprivileged students across the United States.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Hours earlier, the rapper spent the day handing out gifts to underprivileged children in the area.
  — NBC News, 3 Jan. 2020
• Behind the mug shots on the front page were underprivileged children, who had been drawn to a life of crime by the promise of money and a feeling of community.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• Sloan raised money for underprivileged school children in Utah, through the use of her platform on TikTok to meet her fundraising goal in 24 hours.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2021
• Many legal firms will take on pro bono cases to help underprivileged clients.
  — Pia Silva, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Hiner brought in Philadelphia youths, many of whom came from underprivileged backgrounds, to help feed, clean and take care of the horses.
  — Joshua Iversen, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
• It’s employed by elites primarily for the benefit of elites, though in the name of helping the underprivileged.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• Teachers who work at underprivileged schools were more likely to have to provide for their classrooms.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Stone and his crew will take the donations to the local Boys & Girls Club, which will deliver the toys to underprivileged children in the community.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
• The character—a prince who’s grown up in a great many palaces—is so bold as to claim understanding with an audience of underprivileged youth.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2022
• Nugent has spent the past eight years volunteering at soup kitchens and hands-on communities to give back to the underprivileged.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Coelho, who has sold tens of millions of books, said the idea of the book was to inspire underprivileged children to overcome adversity through sports.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2020
• Consider gathering warm clothes and blankets for the underprivileged and homeless, or call a friend who has been in a low cycle.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2020
• At the same time, underprivileged districts and those with special needs students are struggling.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2020
• As the pandemic dragged on, officials seemed bent on undoing many of the programs that helped the underprivileged.
  — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• But for the second year in a row, 11 of Phoenix's 29 public pools remain closed, limiting access to a place to cool off or learn how to swim for people in some of the most underprivileged neighborhoods.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2024
• In the 1960s, New York City presented a harsh landscape for its underprivileged children.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Elizabeth Tunnicliffe, 49, is the head of English at a school in an underprivileged area of east London.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• An eight-year-old in Atlanta launched a literacy project with her parents to give away two million books to underprivileged kids.
  — Maria Morava and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• Like the original, the new 10-episode season follows a group of six students, half of them from an underprivileged school for which funding has been cut in a controversial move by now-Gov.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• In 1998, Petronin founded a charity to provide food and health services to underprivileged orphans in Gao, the largest city in northern Mali.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• And once clothing items reach the end of their rental run, they are donated to the non-profit Delivering Good, which provides new and nearly new clothing to the underprivileged.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Proceeds go toward purchase of school shoes for underprivileged kids in Northern Kentucky.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2024
• The family has also funded a mass wedding for more than 50 underprivileged couples as part of the celebrations earlier this month, the AP reported.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 13 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024