How to Use disqualify in a Sentence

disqualify

verb

• His poor eyesight disqualified him from becoming a pilot.
• Nguyen was included in the poll though he was disqualified from the ballot.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Colorado Supreme Court became the first in the nation to hold that Trump is disqualified from holding office again.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The point of these cardiac screenings is not to disqualify athletes.
  — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• Last year, the kākāpō—the world’s heaviest parrot—was disqualified for winning too many times.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Roman is asking for the prosecutors to be disqualified and for the charges against him to be dismissed.
  — Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• That could mean Fong gets disqualified from the race, so there’s still uncertainty here.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The group said the men’s behavior should disqualify them from leading the academy.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• But that experience has become more common as the tests, and the bots they are designed to disqualify, evolve.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Genser challenged the assignment, asking that Shore be disqualified from the case.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• Some secretaries of state reject the idea that Trump can be disqualified outright.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not be disqualified as a candidate from state ballots.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• But his defiance of Trump has disqualified him for many pro-Trump voters.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2023
• Guesses that do not use this format will be disqualified.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Knowledge of the shooting and the criminal cases that followed did not disqualify jurors from the prospective pool.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• Polls show the former president leading the race by a wide margin ahead of May 5 election, but the conviction will likely disqualify him from the race.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
• But he’s also said Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 have disqualified him from serving again.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• And no firm particularly wanted to hire him because then they'd be disqualified from coming to the Supreme Court with a case because of that.
  — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
• But what makes this weekend’s vote so complex is the scale of anti-democratic moves, such as the use of the judicial branch to disqualify key candidates.
  — Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
• Had Willis been disqualified outright, a new prosecutor would have been required to catch up on Willis’s extensive work over the past two years in building the case.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
• Any child who brought in a microchipped cat would have been disqualified, organizers said.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Thomas held on to the football but was injured on the play, and Jackson was disqualified from further participation.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• One license was stripped earlier this month because the owner had a felony offense that disqualified the owner from the program.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
• Secretariat won eight straight races that year, although he was disqualified in the Champagne.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Under the rules, any fish that was mutilated during the battle would be disqualified.
  — Brandon Sneed, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• In the past, the commission and the courts have used their authority to disqualify opposition parties.
  — Grant Peck and Hrvoje Hranjski, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2023
• In its view, Trump can appear on the ballot regardless of whether Section 3 disqualifies him from the Presidency.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• The remaining major lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump under Section 3, in Colorado, could be decided by the end of the week.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Whether or not the defendant had a gun was an important part of the trial because he was charged with possessing a firearm after being disqualified.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• There are – everyone under 35 is disqualified from being the president of the United States.
  — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024