How to Use dehumanize in a Sentence

dehumanize

verb

• Inspectors have observed terrible factory conditions that dehumanize workers.
• They are dehumanized, and they're stripped away from their rights.
  — ABC News, 3 July 2025
• The answer is not to dehumanize us.
  — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
• The answer is not to dehumanize us.
  — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 7 June 2026
• It has been used to dehumanize and now it's sold as a signifier of cool.
  — Stereo Williams, Billboard, 24 May 2018
• This word has been used to dehumanize my people for over 150 years.
  — Sharareh Drury, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2019
• In the process both men and women have been degraded and dehumanized.
  — WSJ, 20 June 2017
• The Cubans stressed that a guard’s job was to dehumanize the prisoner.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Oct. 2021
• The trope has often been used to dehumanize non-White people.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• To march is to assert your humanity, to shove it in the face of those who would try to dehumanize you.
  — The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• The guy’s ghosting of me also dehumanized him.
  — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
• This is part of a systemic approach to dehumanizing black women and girls.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2018
• Black trans women are working to build power, to change the laws that leave them out, and to shift the culture that dehumanizes them.
  — Alicia Garza, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
• The Nazis were trying break people down along racial lines, to dehumanize them, and strip away their common bonds.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 26 July 2019
• One of the things the Army taught was dehumanizing the enemy.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Breland-Noble adds that the videos dehumanize the people in them.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Our past, our lives, dehumanized into numbers.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
• This is a good time for everyone to dial back rhetoric that dehumanizes people whose politics don’t align with their own.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
• How does expulsion dehumanize and what kinds of lives can be shaped in spite of chronic itineracy?
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2025
• To strip her name from her and contort it into a term that is most often used to degrade artists who look like her is simply dehumanizing.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
• As part of their tribute to the dehumanized — the imprisoned, lost, and enslaved — Khoza puts their own body on the line.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
• In both cases, the characters are dehumanized in the same way the war has dehumanized them.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
• In his studies, Kteily also looked at what happens when people feel like they’re being dehumanized.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 17 May 2018
• Punish her, dehumanize her as an example everyone can learn from.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
• Maslach became interested in how people dehumanize others, which in turn led her to study job burnout, the thrust of her research for years.
  — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014
• America sought to use the Black body as property, to dehumanize us to be used as currency.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• To fall in love with a chatbot or rely on it for friendship — to me that’s a pretty good definition of dehumanizing.
  — Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
• Buddhist monks, moral arbiters in a pious land, have been at the forefront of a campaign to dehumanize the Rohingya.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Gaudet, who served in the Army, said that body targets are deliberately meant to dehumanize humans.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Empathy disappears, justice is dismissed, and the people who live in the land are dehumanized.
  — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025