How to Use disinvite in a Sentence

disinvite

verb

• They were pressured by some of the people there to disinvite me.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2021
• Michaels had to disinvite him, then wait two months before bringing him back to perform.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Connell invited Bell to the game, only to call a few days later to disinvite her.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
• The town’s one black girl their age was invited, too – until the birthday girl’s father found out and told his daughter to disinvite the black girl.
  — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2019
• When Ann Coulter spoke at Smith College some years ago, the faculty and students wanted me to disinvite her.
  — Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Come your wedding day, if most of your guests live in affected areas, there may not be any reason to disinvite anyone.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• Netanyahu is due to speak at a virtual summit meeting of the world’s democracies this week amid calls for him to be disinvited.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The couple had planned to be married before 250 guests, but had to disinvite almost all of them because of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2020
• Others have announced plans to disinvite Russians, only to face a backlash and reverse course weeks later.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Their other 110 original guests were mailed notices that didn’t overtly disinvite them, but explained that the couple chose to have a more intimate event.
  — Sarah Lyon, New York Times, 25 May 2022
• Barrymore was announced, and then disinvited, as the host of the National Book Foundation awards.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• Last year, Pelosi went so far as to disinvite Trump from appearing in the House chamber in the midst of a bitter border wall battle and the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history.
  — Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• Due to public backlash, the Sisters were disinvited from the Dodgers’ event, though they were later reinvited and given an apology.
  — Joy Ashford, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Days later, Donald texted Cooper to disinvite her from executive team meetings, which Cooper told the board in an email are basic to doing her job.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
• The fallout from antisemitic comments by West, the hip hop artist now known as Ye, led four major tournaments to disinvite the basketball team that included a handful of top college prospects.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• The highest inflation in 40 years has blindsided couples, my colleague Martha C. White reports, leading them to cut back on luxuries and even disinvite guests.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
• But then the gatekeeper snubs the social climber, who subsequently disinvites the gatekeeper’s daughter.
  — Chris Vognar, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Doing away with spaces might disinvite car travel and build support for more emissions-friendly bicycles and transit.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• When an elite college refuses to disinvite a speaker, as Middlebury did with regard to Charles Murray, the resulting violence left a professor in a neck-brace.
  — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• The leader of a local retirement community’s Republican club called to disinvite him from an event.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• In the spring of 2014—in retrospect, the dress rehearsal for cancel culture—some commencement speakers around the country were disinvited or withdrew themselves from consideration owing to left-wing protests.
  — Mary Eberstadt, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
• Yes, there are certainly cases of left-wing students and faculty petitioning for right-wing scholars to be disciplined, disinvited, or even fired.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Niemann’s suit described the merger as monopolistic, and further claimed he had been disinvited from tournaments while becoming unable to get work as a chess teacher.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Brennan specifically asked the official if the past few days of trade tension with China, as well as the decision yesterday by the U.S. to disinvite China from military exercises had accounted for the shift.
  — CBS News, 24 May 2018
• Based on his recent interactions with title-winners in other major professional sports leagues, the president might just disinvite the entire team.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
• Last week, Thomas-Greenfield was disinvited to speak at the University of Vermont's commencement ceremony.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 9 May 2024
• At many campuses, efforts are being made to disinvite or disrupt controversial speakers.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• Ahead of opening night festivities, the Berlinale staged a demonstration defending democracy to highlight their decision to disinvite AfD members.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• Nationally, the trend of inviting the most divisive possible speakers and then waiting for the apparently sought-after pressure to disinvite them has become a dispiriting ritual.
  — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
• Lament the absurd sorrow of the Philadelphia food festival that was designed to celebrate culinary diversity — then canceled after the decision to disinvite a food truck selling Israeli food sparked controversy.
  — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024