How to Use dehumanize in a Sentence

dehumanize

verb
  • Inspectors have observed terrible factory conditions that dehumanize workers.
  • The Cubans stressed that a guard’s job was to dehumanize the prisoner.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Oct. 2021
  • One of the things the Army taught was dehumanizing the enemy.
    The Editors, Marie Claire, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Price said the suspect dehumanized her son and his friends.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • As part of their tribute to the dehumanized — the imprisoned, lost, and enslaved — Khoza puts their own body on the line.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And the hostages have been dehumanized every day since.
    Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This word has been used to dehumanize my people for over 150 years.
    Sharareh Drury, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2019
  • To march is to assert your humanity, to shove it in the face of those who would try to dehumanize you.
    The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Black trans women are working to build power, to change the laws that leave them out, and to shift the culture that dehumanizes them.
    Alicia Garza, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
  • The famed rap group N.W.A has a library of records that dehumanize and marginalize black people.
    Jason Whitlock, WSJ, 24 July 2017
  • It has been used to dehumanize and now it's sold as a signifier of cool.
    Stereo Williams, Billboard, 24 May 2018
  • To so dehumanize other people, and see them as just a number on a ledger. .
    Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Nazis were trying break people down along racial lines, to dehumanize them, and strip away their common bonds.
    Elliot Ackerman, Time, 26 July 2019
  • That movement pushed back, in part, against the unchecked use of A.I., which, the strikers argued, threatens to dehumanize the creative work force.
    Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The trope has often been used to dehumanize non-White people.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the process both men and women have been degraded and dehumanized.
    WSJ, 20 June 2017
  • Breland-Noble adds that the videos dehumanize the people in them.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Buddhist monks, moral arbiters in a pious land, have been at the forefront of a campaign to dehumanize the Rohingya.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The word was used as a colonial term to dehumanize and demean Native women in the United States and Canada.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
  • There’s so many things in the system that are set up to demoralize and dehumanize the residents.
    Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2021
  • What’s even more evocative of Nazi practice in the migrant transports is the GOP’s effort to dehumanize its victims.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This is part of a systemic approach to dehumanizing black women and girls.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2018
  • In one of the film's painful moments, Marina is dehumanized by being forced to show her genitals to the police.
    Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • In fact, some of Donald Trump’s favorite immigrants to dehumanize are teenage boys – namely, the junior members of the street gang MS-13.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2018
  • America sought to use the Black body as property, to dehumanize us to be used as currency.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • And the last one is that AI should augment and humanize humans, not automate and dehumanize.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Maslach became interested in how people dehumanize others, which in turn led her to study job burnout, the thrust of her research for years.
    Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014
  • At the end of that meeting, executives agreed to draft a policy about dehumanizing speech and open it to the public for comments.
    Kate Conger, New York Times, 9 July 2019
  • If one group is dehumanized, no one is safe from dehumanization.
    Desmond Meade, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • The scene is a clear statement on the alienating, dehumanizing effects of outsourcing the emotional labor of personal writing.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024

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