Example sentences for: disenfranchised

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

  • Some felt that there had been loss of trust by clients from "disenfranchised" groups because of a belief that legal services programs have pulled away from discrimination-based initiatives.

  • "With the huge number of people disenfranchised, you're really not open to all of the citizenry in making decisions," is one Alabama Democratic legislator's defense of the idea.

  • Even as William Bennett and the National Political Congress of Black Women renew their assault on companies that profit from gangsta rap and claim that it marks a shameful new low in American pop culture, and even as its defenders assert (as Chuck D does) that it's a counter-CNN for the disenfranchised, gangsta rap is merely the wheel coming full circle--back to Charles Harris and "After The Ball."

  • 9% respectively in 1999) [ 12 ] . Minority women from poor urban communities, such as D. C., enter prenatal care later and have fewer prenatal care visits than white women of higher socio-economic levels [ 13 14 ] . Women who make little or no use of prenatal care often are disenfranchised members of the community, such as homeless and substance abusing women [ 15 16 ] . In D.C., many people, particularly those from disenfranchised communities, do not believe that prenatal care is important.

  • It gives voice to disenfranchised folks who would be ignored otherwise.


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