Example sentences for: disadvantaged

How can you use “disadvantaged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The urgent thrust of this year's Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice, now at full flood, is to have more private lawyers throw lifelines to the poor, elderly, disabled, unemployed and disadvantaged drowning in the legal surf.

  • Curley, like Barry, was a master at playing upon the social resentments of his disadvantaged constituents, doing them a great disservice while proclaiming himself their champion.

  • The Wall Street Journal runs a front-page feature about a federal affirmative action program for female highway contractors (the only one that cites women as a disadvantaged class) and the backlash it has created among black, male construction workers, who feel squeezed out of the trade by it.

  • Is he aware that the Pippen Foundation supports reading programs for disadvantaged youth in Chicago?

  • Or call for another tax break to subsidize the cost of schools or day-care centers or hiring the disadvantaged or whatever.


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