How to Use disenfranchise in a Sentence

disenfranchise

verb
  • They disenfranchised poor people by making property ownership a requirement for registering to vote.
  • They could be disenfranchised as well.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats have said such a move would disenfranchise some voters.
    — David Eggert, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • Democrats have said the move would disenfranchise some voters.
    — David Eggert, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
  • Democrats have said the move would disenfranchise some voters.
    — David Eggert, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2021
  • Stay in your lane, and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The pair paid homage to the disenfranchised in their acceptance speech for that award.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 17 May 2017
  • And many of whom are men who are disenfranchised from their own gender or their own identity.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 13 June 2017
  • And many of whom are men who are disenfranchised from their own gender or their own identity.
    — Andrea Park, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2017
  • At least one cat seemed to be disenfranchised in his efforts to enter a polling station.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Many voters in more rural parts of the state had said the new map disenfranchises them.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Heyer was a voice for the disenfranchised, friends say, but no one could push her out of the way of martyrdom.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But, of course, this is not about disenfranchising all those voters who came out for Jones.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Jan. 2018
  • People are just feeling that sense of being disenfranchised on both sides.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Democrats feared the move would disenfranchise thousands of voters.
    — Scott Bauer, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The Real crimes are laws that disenfranchise those that have paid their debt to society.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The hundreds of thousands of blacks who had registered to vote would be disenfranchised.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • So is the rising price of attending the game that serves to disenfranchise the average fan.
    — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had so damaged the count it must be set aside.
    — Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had so damaged the count it must be set aside.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • That means that millions of people would be disenfranchised and would have to go through multiple hurdles to get back on the rolls.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Civil rights groups argue that this will disenfranchise voters who rely on help from strangers and friends to cast their ballots.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Judges are loathe to disenfranchise any voters and there would need to be substantial proof that fraud had damaged the count so much that it must be set aside.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The changes — and concerns that those changes were an effort to disenfranchise voters — have still left voters worried.
    — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Might that disenfranchise voters who already cast their ballots?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Except the people sharing these messages weren’t disenfranchised young men with greasy hair and acne-scarred faces but moms just like me.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2026
  • To disenfranchise is to deprive an individual of the right to vote.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This was meant to ensure that even the most catastrophic of postal snafus won’t disenfranchise mail-in voters.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'disenfranchise.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: