How to Use discriminate in a Sentence

discriminate

verb
  • The school is not allowed to discriminate.
  • Should the federal courts discriminate against rural litigants?
    Mitch McConnell, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
  • With more understanding and conversation, Singh said people may find fewer reasons to hate and discriminate against one another.
    Cate Charron, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2022
  • One of us was recruited to distribute the vaccine in the field and develop molecular typing tools to discriminate between different types of rabies virus variants in the lab.
    Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, discriminating like that is banned in some 20 states.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 19 Sep. 2024
  • For the wine drinker who does not discriminate, the Glasvin Universal Wine Glass is the best universal wine glass.
    Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
  • The College Board disagreed that the tests discriminate.
    Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • During the hearing, Borg-Neal, who is White, failed to convince the judges that he was discriminated against on account of his race.
    Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • However, there is one thing that is precious to all and does not discriminate: time.
    Isabella Sullivan, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
  • At the end of the day, fans are discriminating about having a connection to human artists.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Black hair has been policed, mocked and used as a mechanism to discriminate.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Skin cancer is not just a threat to light-skinned people Skin cancer does not discriminate.
    Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • The firm warned that the commission could face a lawsuit that claimed the map discriminated against non-Latino voters.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The show reflects the range of portraiture and the ways the art form has been used to discriminate and enforce hierarchies across gender, race and class.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This data can be used by third parties to profile you, target you with ads or discriminate against you.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The case involves the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2, which outlaws election rules that discriminate on the basis of race.
    Greg Stohr Bloomberg News (tns), al, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The right answer to stop discrimination on the basis of race, as John Roberts said it, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In the other, the court ruled the ID law was intended to discriminate against voters of color, who were more likely to struggle to meet the new requirements.
    Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Above all, my journey taught me that skin cancer doesn’t discriminate.
    Katie Camero, SELF, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Still, critics claim the theory is being used in public schools to discriminate against white students and blame them for the actions of white people in the past.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 19 May 2022
  • The restaurant operated with a come-one, come-all attitude, and did not discriminate against the dressed down.
    Megha McSwain, Chron, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Their Jazz Club scent is technically a men's cologne, but good smells don't discriminate.
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Gaps should not be used to discriminate against job applicants.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • The moon, silent and foreboding as ever, will not discriminate.
    Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • Efforts to suppress, censor, discriminate against, and erase any person put us all at risk.
    Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Plaintiffs don’t even have to prove any intent to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.
    Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Mike Pence that opponents maintained could be used to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
    Tom Davies, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2022
  • Swales explained that the next part of their strategy will be to mount legal challenges in lower courts that show how some hunters have been discriminated against.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Prior work has found that diners tend to discriminate against black servers—tipping them less than their white counterparts.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The federal government sued Trump for allegedly discriminating against Black apartment seekers in the 1970s.
    Jill Colvin, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024

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