How to Use disenfranchise in a Sentence

disenfranchise

verb
Definition of disenfranchisenext
Synonyms for disenfranchisenext
  • They disenfranchised poor people by making property ownership a requirement for registering to vote.
  • But on the face of it, rule 14.B seems to disenfranchise many voters.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Stay in your lane, and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Democrats have said the move would disenfranchise some voters.
    — David Eggert, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
  • At least one cat seemed to be disenfranchised in his efforts to enter a polling station.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The Real crimes are laws that disenfranchise those that have paid their debt to society.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Democrats have said such a move would disenfranchise some voters.
    — David Eggert, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had so damaged the count it must be set aside.
    — Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had damaged the count so much that it must be set aside.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Trump said her actions disenfranchised voters in Maine, and were part of a broader effort to keep him off the ballot.
    — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The hundreds of thousands of blacks who had registered to vote would be disenfranchised.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • That would give Nissan the right to acquire Renault shares in order to disenfranchise Renault or take it over, he is said to have written in the memo.
    — Reed Stevenson, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2020
  • Bike lanes could work, but not using 10-year-old plans that have disenfranchised many with the same old goals and claims as their only currency.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats say the exercise is a GOP plot to disenfranchise Atlanta.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Democrats feared the move would disenfranchise thousands of voters.
    — Scott Bauer, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The same study found that one in 13 African-Americans of voting age is disenfranchised, a rate more than four times greater than that of non-African-Americans.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Section 259 is a relic of the poll taxes used to disenfranchise Black voters.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 3 Mar. 2022
  • However, in the South, Jim Crow laws would disenfranchise Black men from voting through poll taxes and other means for decades to come.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The deeper point is that in the contemporary United States, with such wide and ready access to the ballot, changes around the edges don’t disenfranchise people.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The changes — and concerns that those changes were an effort to disenfranchise voters — have still left voters worried.
    — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The case drew a number of unlikely allies and the court quickly declined to disenfranchise the group — but impacted voters still aren't out of the woods.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Zoom out: Critics of the decision say the move could disenfranchise young voters, a crucial voting bloc for Democrats.
    — Lucille Sherman, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the commenters accused them of trying to disenfranchise Black voters in Detroit.
    — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The sixth, adopted in 1901 mainly to disenfranchise former slaves and their descendants, still governs the state.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • This was meant to ensure that even the most catastrophic of postal snafus won’t disenfranchise mail-in voters.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Critics say the moves, at the least, would disenfranchise marginalized students, staff and faculty in Newberg schools.
    — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2021
  • While disenfranchising felons is still constitutional, almost half of the states in the last 20 years have expanded a felon’s right to vote in some way.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2020
  • However, Democrats have repeatedly attempted to block provisions of the law, claiming that the strict rules on identification will disenfranchise voters and criminalize portions of the election process.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024

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