How to Use underprivileged in a Sentence

underprivileged

adjective
  • Dawg City plans to hire underprivileged teens and young adults.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Many black and brown women and those who are underprivileged will die because of this.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2022
  • Astrid went to a school for underprivileged children, where her scores were among the lowest in the class.
    — Anne Sugar, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Many legal firms will take on pro bono cases to help underprivileged clients.
    — Pia Silva, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • The stories of kids who came from underprivileged backgrounds like him touch him deeply.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The results for the underprivileged and those who couldn’t afford lawyers have been immense.
    — Annie Brown, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Teachers who work at underprivileged schools were more likely to have to provide for their classrooms.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Common is no stranger to rapping about the everyday lives of the underprivileged.
    — Kevinisha Walker, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, underprivileged districts and those with special needs students are struggling.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Hours earlier, the rapper spent the day handing out gifts to underprivileged children in the area.
    — NBC News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • For a person of privilege to make creative use of the culture of the underprivileged is an act of aggression and abuse.
    — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Friends said the senior Vance quietly fought for the rights of underprivileged as both a jurist and a politician.
    — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Consider gathering warm clothes and blankets for the underprivileged and homeless, or call a friend who has been in a low cycle.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2020
  • The homes and businesses of the city's more underprivileged citizens stood in the flood zones; the needy lost more lives and property than those high on the hills.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Nugent has spent the past eight years volunteering at soup kitchens and hands-on communities to give back to the underprivileged.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The character—a prince who’s grown up in a great many palaces—is so bold as to claim understanding with an audience of underprivileged youth.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2022
  • As the pandemic dragged on, officials seemed bent on undoing many of the programs that helped the underprivileged.
    — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • It’s employed by elites primarily for the benefit of elites, though in the name of helping the underprivileged.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • An eight-year-old in Atlanta launched a literacy project with her parents to give away two million books to underprivileged kids.
    — Maria Morava and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Winfrey opened a school for underprivileged girls in South Africa in 2007.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Behind the mug shots on the front page were underprivileged children, who had been drawn to a life of crime by the promise of money and a feeling of community.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
  • Hiner brought in Philadelphia youths, many of whom came from underprivileged backgrounds, to help feed, clean and take care of the horses.
    — Joshua Iversen, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Coelho, who has sold tens of millions of books, said the idea of the book was to inspire underprivileged children to overcome adversity through sports.
    — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Donald Sykes had a knack for making the powerful acknowledge and address the needs of the poor and underprivileged.
    — Haley Hansen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Katz teaches swimming to underprivileged children, teenagers and adults in New York City.
    — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 6 June 2017
  • Over the past five years, he and the club have been committed to making low-cost, high-quality athletics available to the area's underprivileged youth.
    — Cydney Adams, CBS News, 8 May 2017
  • His space has trained young adults from underprivileged neighborhoods in photography and moviemaking.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Coming from an underprivileged background, this team fights on and off the field, learning valuable lessons from their coach Bobby Selkin.
    — Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Jackson would invite hundreds of children to come play at his ranch, particularly ill and underprivileged kids.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • He was raised in a housing project in the underprivileged exurb of Trappes, 20 miles west of Paris, one of seven children.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 8 June 2021

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