How to Use disadvantaged in a Sentence

disadvantaged

adjective
  • The program provides aid for economically disadvantaged groups.
  • No one is sick or disadvantaged.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This game was equally bad, quite frankly, but the Kings were the ones who were most disadvantaged tonight.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Scheffler is atop the standings for the fourth-straight year, and therefore most disadvantaged by the change.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This was true of disadvantaged students as well as privileged ones.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026
  • The central mission in both cities was to help disadvantaged students.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Preeti’s hope for two children is normal now, even in a poor, disadvantaged state in India.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Alaska was ranked the second most disadvantaged state for children.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This also means that disadvantaged students will need extra support to get there.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The next step is getting students from disadvantaged backgrounds launched into strong first jobs.
    — Ben Wildavsky, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The kids who were already disadvantaged are the ones who’ve fallen furthest behind.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
  • Our goal is to expose disadvantaged kids to sailing and kindle within them the passion sailors share.
    — Conor Mastromarco, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The poll suggests that few men see themselves as disadvantaged compared to women in the workplace.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The poll suggests that few men see themselves as disadvantaged compared to women in the workplace.
    — Alexandra Olson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These are disadvantaged neighborhoods across the city.
    — Leondra Head, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The court's decision would be a blow to their push to help disadvantaged communities.
    — Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News, 5 May 2021
  • His audience is largely composed of disadvantaged young people who are on a path toward drugs, gangs and crime.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • It was largely meant to give a leg up to disadvantaged kids and to get parents involved by putting on a show that was also attractive to them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • On the flip side, teams playing their home games in California appear to be the most disadvantaged.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While the pandemic caught everyone off guard, disadvantaged districts were less ready to adapt to school shutdowns.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 3 July 2021
  • The youth center, which has seven offices around the city, works to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The challenge is made harder by the fact that energy prices are rising sharply around the world, piling pressure on the most disadvantaged.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The gap with last year’s kids is the size of the chronic disparities usually seen among disadvantaged students.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Many schools of thought exist about what is in the best interest of the economically disadvantaged.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And the results show there has been little progress over the last decade, with almost no change in the gap between the persistently disadvantaged and their peers.
    — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The disagreement often boils down to a contest of which minority is the most disadvantaged.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Clemency and leniency can be virtues, but only when the offender has shown a willingness to change or is part of some disadvantaged group.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026
  • Around the world, people breathing the most toxic air are consistently the poorest and most disadvantaged.
    — Lauren Gravitz, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • No one from the transportation department reached out directly to disadvantaged and rural places to tell them about the money.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But high school graduation tests have fallen out of favor across the country over concerns that the mandates hurt disadvantaged teenagers.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023

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