How to Use disbar in a Sentence

disbar

verb
  • All the lawyers should be disbarred.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Both Bondis should be disbarred.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • His sycophancy has left him disbarred and broke.
    — John Avlon, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • He was also disbarred in New York.
    — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Williams was disbarred about two months after criminal charges were filed against her.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has been trashing Cohen as a liar and a poor lawyer before he was disbarred.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The court said that was not enough punishment and that Coulter must be disbarred.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 18 June 2018
  • He was disbarred from practicing law, but spent only four months of his six-year sentence in prison.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 9 May 2023
  • When judges do their jobs, lawyers who violate those rules may be fined, suspended, or disbarred.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
  • All the money was gone 3 days later Masud has been disbarred.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Diab did not show up to his trial, was placed on default and was subsequently disbarred.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
  • Murdaugh, who has been disbarred, admitted to the thefts, which could carry decades in prison, on the stand last week.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Now, Girardi stands disgraced, disbarred and charged in two states with bilking his clients.
    — Siobhan O'Driscoll, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers have found that women in law are disbarred at almost twice the rate men are in the event of a violation.
    — Reshma Saujani, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • How eight of his closest associates have been sentenced to prison and many more have been disbarred or otherwise shamed?
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
  • He was ultimately disbarred in New York for his actions in the case.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • He has been disbarred and held in contempt in New York and in Washington.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Alex Murdaugh is—or at least was, before he was disbarred—a talented trial lawyer.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Despite his diagnosis, he was still disbarred and stood trial.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • At roughly the same time Stanley was disbarred last year, Jacobs was released from jail.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • Then she is disbarred in the state of New York, saving Mike and Harvey one last time.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Most of his legal work was as a personal injury lawyer until he was forced out of the firm and then disbarred in July last year.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • As for Blanche, he should be disbarred as fast as New York authorities can manage it.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • If he is convicted, the State Bar could disbar him, suspend his law license or put him on probation.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • The Georgia Bar held a trial for Wood in May to determine whether to disbar him.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • He should be disbarred as a consequence and to send a message to the rest of the Bar and to the public that this behavior will not be tolerated.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Payne county Judge Susan Worthington should be disbarred.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Hernandez, who joined the Bar in 2017, gets, essentially, disbarred for five years.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Gaddy went to law school and became an attorney, but he was disbarred in 1990 and convicted of a string of felonies in the ensuing years.
    — USA Today, 25 July 2023
  • The prosecutor was disbarred in 2007.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 27 Feb. 2026

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