How to Use dehumanizing in a Sentence

dehumanizing

adjective

• Comments and actions like these are, frankly, dehumanizing and racist.
  — Danielle Nierenberg, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• In the dehumanizing circus of royal life, her relationship with her sons is her one source of love and joy.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2022
• Being told you sound like AI, then, can feel oddly dehumanizing.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
• Boiling a little under the surface is incredulity and anger at the dehumanizing impact of the prison system.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
• It was used as a dehumanizing form of minstrelsy that further objectified Black men.
  — Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 1 May 2025
• Life became a blur of court dates and legal jargon, of trying to decode a prison system that feels purposely opaque, dehumanizing, and cruel.
  — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2025
• Trump’s mercy extends not just to political supporters but to those who share his most dehumanizing instincts.
  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
• The reaction was swift and severe, with many condemning Jones’ words as callous and dehumanizing.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The new policy is dehumanizing, Rivas said, and can lead to mistreatment and abuse of the immigrant.
  — Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Feb. 2026
• It is rooted in the dehumanizing language and convenient fictions that precede acts of violence.
  — Brad Braxton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
• To them, the phrase conveyed the precious shreds of humanity that survive the dehumanizing effects of the internet.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
• Some of these have promoted Holocaust denial and attacked Jews in dehumanizing terms.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• Both the works and their presentation try to make something horrible and dehumanizing seem sacred and beautiful.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• By enacting this scene, students pushed back against racist and dehumanizing ideas that positioned Black people as mere property.
  — Mickell Carter / Made By History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
• The problem was not with other places, or with the man wanting to see them, but with travel’s dehumanizing effect, which thrust him among people to whom he was forced to relate as a spectator.
  — Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• Dawson said such policies are part of the dehumanizing legacy of chattel slavery, where people with darker skin and kinkier hair were never allowed to work indoors.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Trump has spent years dehumanizing immigrants, exhorting law enforcement to treat suspects more roughly, and attacking the rule of law.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• The book shared her remarkable story of self-possession under the most dehumanizing circumstances.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• No child should ever be subjected to such racist, mean and dehumanizing comments, especially from a public official.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2022
• That, for me, felt dehumanizing to our immigrant population.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
• The dehumanizing effect of that term creates the expectation that the person is only a budget gatekeeper.
  — Chris Chambers, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Larson is wary of the dehumanizing effects of global superstardom.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• Returning to your humanity can heal the dehumanizing effects of combat.
  — Noël Lipana, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• Trump’s dehumanizing rhetoric is another example of the former president trying to stoke fears about those in the country illegally.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
• McBride has urged her new Democratic colleagues to push back on dehumanizing language, but not to let Congress or the media's focus be on culture fights.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
• This whole experience has been so disappointing, and it’s been extremely dehumanizing.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
• Hundreds of young children, teenagers, and their parents have been held at the remote facility that has drawn mounting scrutiny over reports of its dehumanizing conditions.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2026
• Historically, the dehumanizing views of Holmes and Freud flow from secularism’s blind faith in science.
  — James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
• This idea has found perhaps its most alarming expression in the government’s dehumanizing messaging around immigration.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
• The ’90s and the 2000s were this period of real dehumanizing, cruel treatment of women in the public eye.
  — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025