How to Use disbelieve in a Sentence

disbelieve

verb
  • Several jurors disbelieved the witness's testimony.
  • Some disbelieving piece of you can’t stop going back over the past.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Trump wants voters to forget about or disbelieve the facts of the pandemic.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Now the disbelieving Novoa was caught between two forces of nature.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tens of millions of voters were willing to disbelieve the media.
    — WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The courts were almost twice as likely to disbelieve the mothers’ claims of abuse in those scenarios.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Clinton is displaying, a self that will be embraced by some and disbelieved by others.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Voters seem to believe a reporter and disbelieve a politician.
    — David E. Clementson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2021
  • And a woman can behave perfectly and still be disbelieved.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • John was very active in throwing his body between us and, at that point, a disbelieving Disney.
    — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The system has been designed to disbelieve them, the veterans complain.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The only times prices and ratings decouple are when the whole market disbelieves in the rating, or demand is thin.
    — Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • And so this loss of voice is her body’s way of protecting her from the double trauma of having her family disbelieve her.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Less clear is precisely which 10 to 30 percent should be disbelieved.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The rest of the respondents either disbelieved both men or were undecided.
    — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Hippocrates and his disciples did not disbelieve in Asclepius, the god of medicine (or any other god).
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The crowd, disbelieving, yelled and stared at Ledecka, encouraging her to emote.
    — Barry Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The crowd, disbelieving, yelled and stared at Ledecka, encouraging her to emote.
    — Barry Svrluga, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • If so many people can come forward and still be disbelieved, the devaluation of women’s voices is clear.
    — Noreen Malone, The Cut, 25 June 2017
  • For a Black woman, being disbelieved so publicly by a white woman politician was an extra layer of fury.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
  • With a disbelieving forward baring down on goal with Neuer, Higuain snatched at the shot however, and scuffed his shot wide.
    — SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • Cooper will portray the son, who tells his disbelieving family that he has been sent by God to save them from an impending flood.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • The stadium fell silent with anticipation, and then rather than an eruption, a disbelieving groan filled the air.
    — SI.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Rarely in history has a president so efficiently trained the public to disbelieve him as a matter of course.
    — Lili Loofbourow, The Week, 13 Nov. 2017
  • When her disbelieving parents banish Pet, Jam and the creature team up in secret to hunt the monster.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Yet, 16 of the 17 people who reported brain fog in our study described feeling disbelieved.
    — Emily Mendenhall, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The next time a famous woman, or any woman, is getting publicly trashed, check whether your automatic instinct is to disbelieve her.
    — Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Perhaps that desire to believe that all is well is one of the reasons that people are so inclined to disbelieve women who come forward to speak about their assault.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Bates is marvelous as the baffled but never disbelieving foot soldier who is the link between the worlds of sanity and madness, whichever is which.
    — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018

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