How to Use voiceless in a Sentence

voiceless

adjective
  • One of the roles hip hop plays is to give a voice to voiceless.
    — Chris Haghirian, kansascity, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Much of it is all but flat and voiceless - and there's a reason for that.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • There are hundreds of voiceless people who don't know how to fight this.
    — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • These shows really do give voice to people who feel pretty voiceless at the moment.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
  • My desire in such stories was to give a voice to voiceless populations, to bear witness to their pain.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • At the end of the day, contractual workers in our country are still helpless and voiceless.
    — Sonny Calvento, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The Canadians think that women here are oppressed and voiceless.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 13 June 2018
  • To be a voice for the voiceless and advocate on their behalf is a really important thing for me.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Tony is kind of this prototypical angry white man who's finding himself sort of voiceless.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Equipped with the belief that all women have the right to a healthy pregnancy and delivery, her goal as a doula is to be a voice to those who feel voiceless.
    — Erica R. Williams, Essence, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Her mother and her equally nameless aunts are voiceless bystanders at best, screeching shrews bent on making the girl conform at any cost at worst.
    — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Children should be taught to treat themselves, each other and the voiceless beings who share this Earth with respect and kindness.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • And Shin revisits the friction between the marginalized and voiceless and those who keep them that way, and the wish to exert the self.
    — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Bully Ray envisioned a moment where a rival taunts the voiceless Knight.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Mr Subay says his figure is meant to stand for an entire country—vulnerable, voiceless—that no one seems to care about.
    — C.a.r., The Economist, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The focus of academics swung to class, race, and gender, to giving voice to the voiceless and documenting injustices.
    — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • Victims of crimes are invisible and voiceless, and the villain now is the criminal justice system.
    — Heather Nolan, nola.com, 19 June 2019
  • Even in a voiceless chatbot, a user may attribute male or female gender based on these conversational features.
    — Sharone Horowit-Hendler, Wired, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Another source of unexpected change is pure pop culture, if the voices of the voiceless and powerless can somehow be united.
    — Craig Newmark, WIRED, 30 June 2011
  • And as the story was told and retold, Cinderella moved back and forth between being the active author of her own fate and a passive, voiceless doll.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • If Crump truly chose his profession to give voice to the voiceless, justice for victims should be paramount, not protecting bad actors.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • My job is to give a voice to the voiceless, share stories about places and people others may never get to see or meet and hold people accountable for doing the wrong thing — which is pretty cool.
    — Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
  • There are the voiceless — animals don’t have a voice, homeless don’t have a voice, the emotionally disturbed on the subway don’t have a voice, veterans don’t have a voice.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025
  • While the president sharpens his axe, Tillerson has been largely absent, mostly voiceless, and effectively neutered in his new job.
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 3 Mar. 2017
  • For decades, Johnson, 58, remained voiceless about her past, cycling through two more abusive relationships.
    — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The stories range from big watchdog projects that give voice to the voiceless to illuminating feature or explanatory narratives.
    — Mark Katches, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • There are a number of individuals that are voiceless and disenfranchised in the prison population.
    — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • This paper has a long record of trying to give voice to the voiceless … of trying to tell stories that no one else will … or trying to show people the rich, diverse, texture of this community.
    — Scott Maxwell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 June 2017
  • Vecna as the Big Bad who’s always been trying to get through the gates back into the real world is a much more compelling idea than some giant, voiceless, mindless monster.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The killer is also sentient rather than a beastly hunter—such as the Demogorgon—or a powerful but voiceless demon—like the Mind Flayer.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 May 2022

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