How to Use disadvantaged in a Sentence

disadvantaged

adjective

• The program provides aid for economically disadvantaged groups.
• And the results show there has been little progress over the last decade, with almost no change in the gap between the persistently disadvantaged and their peers.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• The central mission in both cities was to help disadvantaged students.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• It was largely meant to give a leg up to disadvantaged kids and to get parents involved by putting on a show that was also attractive to them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• The challenge is made harder by the fact that energy prices are rising sharply around the world, piling pressure on the most disadvantaged.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Our goal is to expose disadvantaged kids to sailing and kindle within them the passion sailors share.
  — Conor Mastromarco, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
• The proceeds from the sale will go to The Prince's Trust charity, which was founded by the King to support young people from disadvantaged communities.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• The youth center, which has seven offices around the city, works to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022
• The two peoples account for 3.2% of the Australian population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic group.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• The next step is getting students from disadvantaged backgrounds launched into strong first jobs.
  — Ben Wildavsky, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Around the world, people breathing the most toxic air are consistently the poorest and most disadvantaged.
  — Lauren Gravitz, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• There is overwhelming evidence that a child who cannot read by the third grade is more likely to become the adult parent who can’t read – and therefore disadvantaged for life.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2023
• Stripping the right to vote from Black Southerners, King noted, laid the groundwork for laws that further disadvantaged poor people across racial lines.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2022
• At least 40% of the money would be required to be spent in disadvantaged communities, which often have the fewest acres of parks and green space and the highest levels of air pollution.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• His audience is largely composed of disadvantaged young people who are on a path toward drugs, gangs and crime.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
• No one from the transportation department reached out directly to disadvantaged and rural places to tell them about the money.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Here’s the thing: There have always been deserving schools and fans pushed aside or left behind, left out, disrespected and disadvantaged.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Or the Prince's Trust, has supported over a million young people, many from disadvantaged back to realize their own missions.
  — Town & Country, 8 May 2023
• The mayor released a plan, on Earth Day, to address extreme heat caused by climate change in disadvantaged city neighborhoods.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
• Jefferson County Public Schools has received the largest gift in its history, according to the district, with plans to invest the funds in some of the city’s most disadvantaged schools.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• But high school graduation tests have fallen out of favor across the country over concerns that the mandates hurt disadvantaged teenagers.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Dorothy and Anna traveled as a pair to Italy and elsewhere, later co-founded a clinic for disadvantaged children in London, and would cohabit for the rest of their lives.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• She was shocked at the portion of NaNo’s statement that seemed to equate being economically disadvantaged to needing to consult an AI for help.
  — Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• In Cambodia, a circus employing disadvantaged youth is helping break the cycle of poverty and renew arts that were nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge regime.
  — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2023
• The fears triggered by shootings and explosions in disadvantaged neighborhoods have made crime one of the most pressing issues for Swedish voters.
  — Vanessa Gera, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
• Jefferson County Public Schools has received the largest gift in its history, according to the district, with plans to invest the funds in some of Louisville's most disadvantaged schools.
  — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2022
• At the same time, mounting evidence has emphasized the harm children suffer by growing up in disadvantaged places.
  — Jason Deparle Bobby Altman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• After the government passed the bill that critics said disadvantaged Muslims, Kashyap made headlines by joining a massive protest in Mumbai.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Scientists have warned from the start that pandemics require nothing less than global resolve: One country can only be as strong as the most disadvantaged.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• This season's butter-soft knitwear is spun from silk and organic wool by women in disadvantaged communities on Mount Kenya.
  — Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025