How to Use discrimination in a Sentence

discrimination

noun

• He sued the company for age discrimination.
• The law prohibits discrimination in hiring.
• And adding to the tragedy is the discrimination and scorn that was heaped upon them.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• The root cause of many forms of discrimination is hate grounded in fear of the unknown.
  — Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2021
• But that doesn’t mean clubs are off the hook for claims of discrimination.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
• In many families, race and discrimination are at the top of the list.
  — Fatima Varner, star-telegram, 17 June 2018
• Our health care and our rights to live free from discrimination depend on it.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2018
• No one wants to be a member of a party of discrimination.
  — Jennifer Williams, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2018
• That is blatant discrimination based on the slant of a speaker’s ideas.
  — S.m. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
• The judge noted that the plaintiffs were not able to demonstrate intent of discrimination based on race.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• In accordance with the law, any person has the right to take a gender discrimination case to court.
  — Nusmila Lohani, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
• Kravitz admitted that this discrimination was a very tough pill to swallow at the time.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 8 Mar. 2022
• The deep down in the bones, the discrimination and the inequity, Google is no different.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
• The women told tales of discrimination both overt and subtle.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 June 2017
• It’s built on centuries of discrimination and doesn’t stop in one or two years.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2022
• The case has stood out because few racial discrimination suits reach French courts.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• Of course there was high discrimination during that time.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
• Many people claimed the men were subject to racial discrimination.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
• It can be used to describe a broad range of discrimination against female consumers.
  — Murphy Zhao, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• At the university there seemed to be no racial discrimination at all.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• To be clear, this case is not one of discrimination, though that word has popped up a lot in opinion pieces about this restaurant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• But experts said that discrimination against female trees is not a cause.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
• New York has become the second state to enact a law that bans hair discrimination.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 July 2019
• And there is a lot of discrimination and stereotyping between these two groups of students.
  — Amanda Walker, AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Can vaccine passports be used as a tool of discrimination?
  — Dan Reed, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• How can there be racial discrimination based on hairstyles?
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Starbucks is not the first major restaurant chain to come under fire for racial discrimination.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 14 Apr. 2018
• But the point is, this is not accounted for solely by discrimination.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• Heumann sued for discrimination and won in a landmark case, becoming the first wheelchair user to teach in the city’s schools.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• The most disheartening part of all this is that black people alone cannot abolish discrimination and hate.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 June 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024