How to Use disenfranchised in a Sentence

disenfranchised

adjective

• A lot of people feel disenfranchised.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
• All birds look alike, thus preventing me from spotting the disenfranchised creature.
  — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
• His compassion for the disenfranchised and for children may be his lasting legacy.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
• Of that, women of color and gender-expansive folks are even more disenfranchised.
  — Lauren Sato, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• Democrats have accused them of trying to keep disenfranchised people from exercising their rights.
  — Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• There were also a lot of really aggressive, disenfranchised sentiments with young white men at the time.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 7 May 2026
• The legal thriller will follow four women lawyers who fight for disenfranchised underdogs, going to great lengths to solve brutal crimes.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Dec. 2021
• The disenfranchised resort to aggressive tactics in a desperate attempt to be heard and are cast as the bully.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The host is sensitive to the idea that a weekend in Mexico may seem classist for someone who speaks to and for the disenfranchised.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
• Their ultimate goal is to help the disenfranchised achieve success and live their own unique American Dream.
  — Willie J. Allen Jr., Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
• And half of our country feels disenfranchised and scared and vulnerable, and that is unacceptable.
  — Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
• In today’s world of seismic upheaval and change, there are often winners and losers, with the most disenfranchised people too often bearing the cost.
  — Laura Tilghman, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2022
• Every American ought to want to see policies that improve the health of those most disenfranchised and dependent.
  — Arthur Caplan, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
• Regardless of the outcome, many members of Central would feel disenfranchised.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 25 Feb. 2023
• Public records in Brazil are chaotic, particularly among the poor and the disenfranchised.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• But like rock, hip-hop has provided a key platform for disenfranchised young people who otherwise had little or no voice — and little or no options to be seen and heard.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• Soon, the movement mushroomed organically around the country as years of frustrations and anger boiled over among the disenfranchised youth.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 25 Oct. 2020
• And Bob Mathews is someone who presented all these things to disenfranchised and lonely people.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2024
• Pictures of sick kids, animals, the disenfranchised and troubled are compelling and force people to pause and (hopefully) engage.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• The sum resembles Rage Against the Machine's disenfranchised fury.
  — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Old versus young framing is ubiquitous, as in this Bloomberg article about Germany's disenfranchised youth that cropped up in my news feed.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
• The district, Williams added, wants to make sure everyone is included, especially those who are the most disenfranchised.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• After four years of a Democrat in the White House, young men who feel disenfranchised were more open to hearing Trump out and voting for him.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• The government did not allow the miners to own land on the goldfields, or to vote, so the town was a tent city of the disenfranchised, marked by noise, mine shafts and flags marking different enclaves.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Amid all this back and forth, meanwhile, the voices of the young people most directly affected by school board changes go unheard, entirely disenfranchised in the matter.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
• For the disenfranchised, writing one’s own story has never been as simple as stringing together life-defining events on a kind of grail quest for self-acceptance and healing.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Muslims make up only around ten percent of Kenya’s population, and the group has a legitimate reason to feel disenfranchised.
  — Paul Hidalgo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2014
• If they’re viewed simply as a resource—there to be burned through and criticized by the rest of the organization—the tech team will become disenfranchised, leading to retention risk.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• There are better ways to eliminate smoking than impose an impractical mandate that creates a permanent class of disenfranchised adults.
  — Alex Weatherall, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026
• If someone like Zach, who was so engaged with his care, could have such a profound misunderstanding of the course of his disease, what about more disenfranchised and marginalized patients?
  — S. Monica Soni, STAT, 6 Sep. 2022