Examples of blackball in a Sentence

Verb She was blackballed by the sorority

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb That's why all of these coaches really need to band together, because the NFL can't blackball everybody. — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022 Trust us, says the league that paid millions to quarterback Colin Kaepernick and defensive back Eric Reid to settle their claim that the league colluded to blackball them for their politics. — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022 The lawyer is confident what is going on, from bullying to trying to blackball him with a feeling a betrayal. — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2021 Haines perhaps was overly convinced that his fame was robust enough to survive Mayer's attempts to blackball him. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 June 2021 The company’s sway in business has come in for scrutiny, too, over its ability to blackball particular apps, cut preferential deals and use its financial power to acquire promising startups. — John D. Mckinnon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020 Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers went so far as to say Kaepernick was being blackballed from the league. — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 May 2020 In 2016, Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the National Anthem in protest of these racist deaths, and the latter was functionally blackballed from the NFL. — Zoé Samudzi, The New Republic, 16 May 2020 For years she was blackballed and had to settle for crumbs. — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Photos of Jay-Z hamming it up with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who many see as the face of Kaepernick’s blackball, were off-putting, to put it politely. — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019 Supporters of the proposed law say letting landlords blackball people who qualify for federal vouchers is partly responsible for San Diego’s stark racial segregation, with minorities dominating southern areas and whites dominant in northern areas. — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2018 Pay college players, blackball Colin Kaepernick, baseball is too slow. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018 Even with Kaepernick grayballed (blackball-lite?), the trickle of protesters became a torrent, thanks to the president. — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018 There is a reason why fashionable members clubs admit freelance graphic designers who live hand to mouth and blackball superstar bankers. — Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017 But the idea that this situation is anything but a blackball is ridiculous. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017 When there are too many swimmers for safe surfing, the blackball flag serves as a warning. — Julia Herbst, Los Angeles Magazine, 13 July 2017 See More

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