How to Use voiceless in a Sentence

voiceless

adjective
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  • One of the roles hip hop plays is to give a voice to voiceless.
    — Chris Haghirian, kansascity, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The voiceless eighty per cent of the country—the Hindus?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
  • Much of it is all but flat and voiceless - and there's a reason for that.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Lonnie Bunch: The protest is always the way those who are voiceless speak.
    — CBS News, 1 June 2020
  • There are hundreds of voiceless people who don't know how to fight this.
    — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • And Shin revisits the friction between the marginalized and voiceless and those who keep them that way, and the wish to exert the self.
    — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • One can imagine a few left-leaning politicians for whom Osborne’s voice-to-the-voiceless speech might stick in the craw.
    — Ed Caesar, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Equipped with the belief that all women have the right to a healthy pregnancy and delivery, her goal as a doula is to be a voice to those who feel voiceless.
    — Erica R. Williams, Essence, 15 Sep. 2022
  • At the end of the day, contractual workers in our country are still helpless and voiceless.
    — Sonny Calvento, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • My desire in such stories was to give a voice to voiceless populations, to bear witness to their pain.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The Canadians think that women here are oppressed and voiceless.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 13 June 2018
  • On the other hand, there’s no denying the sudden eeriness of this voiceless police report: a file of a person who may or may not be alive, lost to the winds of time.
    — Carlos Valladares, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
  • To be a voice for the voiceless and advocate on their behalf is a really important thing for me.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • And as the story was told and retold, Cinderella moved back and forth between being the active author of her own fate and a passive, voiceless doll.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • Them: the voiceless, hollow women, the images in magazines.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The killer is also sentient rather than a beastly hunter—such as the Demogorgon—or a powerful but voiceless demon—like the Mind Flayer.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • Her mother and her equally nameless aunts are voiceless bystanders at best, screeching shrews bent on making the girl conform at any cost at worst.
    — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Still, the Voice served as an important platform for the otherwise voiceless left out of the mainstream discussion during both Stonewall and the paper’s 60-year run.
    — Chad Painter, The Conversation, 19 June 2019
  • Mr Subay says his figure is meant to stand for an entire country—vulnerable, voiceless—that no one seems to care about.
    — C.a.r., The Economist, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Vecna as the Big Bad who’s always been trying to get through the gates back into the real world is a much more compelling idea than some giant, voiceless, mindless monster.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • My job is to give a voice to the voiceless, share stories about places and people others may never get to see or meet and hold people accountable for doing the wrong thing — which is pretty cool.
    — Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
  • Giving voice to those who were voiceless for generations.
    — Robin Rose Parker, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • This paper has a long record of trying to give voice to the voiceless … of trying to tell stories that no one else will … or trying to show people the rich, diverse, texture of this community.
    — Scott Maxwell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 June 2017
  • Victims of crimes are invisible and voiceless, and the villain now is the criminal justice system.
    — Heather Nolan, nola.com, 19 June 2019
  • Cannon imagines himself voiceless and on the sidelines of an art form that nonetheless maps and defines his emotional world).
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Since they’re voiceless, this is mostly done through guardians and representatives.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 June 2019
  • The dream provides a dramatic metaphor for how the reserved Frances has been feeling voiceless next to her gregarious ex-girlfriend turned best friend, Bobbi.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
  • Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, haunts these pages, attempting to give voice to often-voiceless women of color.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Tony is kind of this prototypical angry white man who's finding himself sort of voiceless.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Many proponents of that state within and outside China possess the wealth and connections to protect themselves from its most egregious abuses; most Chinese, still poor and voiceless, cannot.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022

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