How to Use discriminate in a Sentence

discriminate

verb
  • The school is not allowed to discriminate.
  • For the wine drinker who does not discriminate, the Glasvin Universal Wine Glass is the best universal wine glass.
    Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
  • The College Board disagreed that the tests discriminate.
    Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • During the hearing, Borg-Neal, who is White, failed to convince the judges that he was discriminated against on account of his race.
    Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • However, there is one thing that is precious to all and does not discriminate: time.
    Isabella Sullivan, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
  • Black hair has been policed, mocked and used as a mechanism to discriminate.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Skin cancer is not just a threat to light-skinned people Skin cancer does not discriminate.
    Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • The firm warned that the commission could face a lawsuit that claimed the map discriminated against non-Latino voters.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The show reflects the range of portraiture and the ways the art form has been used to discriminate and enforce hierarchies across gender, race and class.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This data can be used by third parties to profile you, target you with ads or discriminate against you.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The right answer to stop discrimination on the basis of race, as John Roberts said it, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In the other, the court ruled the ID law was intended to discriminate against voters of color, who were more likely to struggle to meet the new requirements.
    Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Their Jazz Club scent is technically a men's cologne, but good smells don't discriminate.
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Efforts to suppress, censor, discriminate against, and erase any person put us all at risk.
    Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Plaintiffs don’t even have to prove any intent to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.
    Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
  • California already has a law on the books that says a landlord cannot discriminate based on source of income, such as a housing voucher.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Dismantle school standards that have been used to discriminate against Black children and their culture.
    Tiffany Eve Lawrence, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time she’s been detained for speaking out against the Iranian government, which for decades has enforced strict rules that discriminate against women.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And in 2015, Kung Fu Saloon paid a small fine to the city and issued an apology after a customer complained that the Uptown bar had discriminated against him because of his race.
    Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Tax breaks for renewable companies were so generous that the EU accused the U.S. of discriminating against companies in the bloc.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In other words, people can discriminate against adult film actors.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Voting-rights advocates sued, and in January 2022, a federal court agreed that the map discriminated against Black voters and had to be redrawn.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • One more thing: Why is this restaurant owner discriminating against kids anyway?
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The state banned business tax deductions for money spent on private clubs that discriminated.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Here are five more examples of onstage mishaps that prove accidents don’t discriminate.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Darryl George, a Texas high school student who sued his school for discriminating against him for having locs, was placed in an in-school suspension Tuesday after returning to school.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • As Dunwell said, anyone can apply to put up a display; Iowa does not discriminate on the basis of religion or ideology.
    Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • But Phoenix himself knew that addiction did not discriminate.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The initial lawsuit argued that Fearless Fund’s grant program discriminated against white and Asian women.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Many women report being stereotyped and discriminated against based on their age.
    Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 6 Mar. 2024

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