How to Use disaffiliate in a Sentence

disaffiliate

verb
  • Some will be part of new church start-ups in communities where churches have disaffiliated.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 29 June 2023
  • Delegates will meet Friday to vote on approving those requests to disaffiliate.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
  • This is the final year for churches to disaffiliate under a special process created in 2019.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 10 July 2023
  • Stien sent an email Sunday night announcing the decision to disaffiliate, falling back on those Christian values.
    — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2020
  • Thirty-five congregations were allowed to disaffiliate in November, while three others were blocked.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
  • To run as an independent, a candidate would have had to disaffiliate from any political party at least 30 days before this year’s primary.
    — Chris Brennan, Philly.com, 29 June 2017
  • The plan includes starting churches in Orange Beach and Prattville, where churches disaffiliated.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 12 June 2023
  • Since last year, conservative United Methodist churches have been disaffiliating in large numbers.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
  • Orange Beach United Methodist Church also voted to disaffiliate.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Given the prominence of religious institutions in Black culture, disaffiliating from religion can leave a void in terms of community.
    — Kathryn Post, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The community deserves a full picture of why Hoag wants to disaffiliate from Providence and how Providence continues to interfere in its services.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • In 2021, the Board of Trustees adopted a process and, along with District Superintendents, walked alongside the churches that requested to disaffiliate.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 5 June 2022
  • The 70 churches that chose to disaffiliate represent 9% of the congregations in the Conference and 3% of the membership, according to the denomination.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 5 June 2022
  • Counting the new start-up congregations in some of the places where other churches have disaffiliated, the North Alabama Conference currently has 290 congregations.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Churches must also pay two years of apportionments to the UMC as well as any unfunded pension liabilities in order to disaffiliate under Paragraph 2553.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But in 2019, according to the court record, Kashdan was barred from teaching or hiring new graduate students for two years and disaffiliated from GMU’s clinical psychology program for at least five years.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Phi Delta Theta, the fraternity now disaffiliating with KU, was suspended after multiple hazing incidents were reported through university channels.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Many churches that left, or disaffiliated, between 2019-2023 joined a more conservative breakaway denomination called the Global Methodist Church.
    — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Congregations still have until the end of 2023 to vote to disaffiliate under terms approved by the United Methodist General Conference that allows congregations to vote to leave and negotiate to take their property with them.
    — al, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The foundation has been working to raise additional funds after the demise of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which previously provided funding for the dues, and a subsequent vote by the Arkansas TV Commission to disaffiliate from PBS.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2026

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