How to Use disqualify in a Sentence

disqualify

verb

• His poor eyesight disqualified him from becoming a pilot.
• By the time the trainees reached the tower, two had been disqualified for marching too slowly.
  — Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024
• She was followed by four men, one of whom was disqualified for coming out of the water in the wrong place.
  — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Nascar told his team that he was disqualified from competing in the rest of the event, so Williams decided to park the car on the frontstretch as a protest to the call.
  — Joseph Wolkin, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Nguyen was included in the poll though he was disqualified from the ballot.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Three days later, Dancer’s Image is disqualified when traces of a painkiller are found in tests.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
• The Colorado Supreme Court became the first in the nation to hold that Trump is disqualified from holding office again.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The point of these cardiac screenings is not to disqualify athletes.
  — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• But Purdy can also disqualify himself in the next two years and save the 49ers from themselves.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• Then the defense team submitted a motion to disqualify Gull as a judge in Allen’s case.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2024
• By the standard of any profession, a failure this grave would disqualify a person from the job.
  — John Dickerson, CBS News, 24 July 2022
• If the court finds the challenge valid, candidates will be disqualified.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
• Last year, the kākāpō—the world’s heaviest parrot—was disqualified for winning too many times.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Roman is asking for the prosecutors to be disqualified and for the charges against him to be dismissed.
  — Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• That could mean Fong gets disqualified from the race, so there’s still uncertainty here.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The deputy public defenders had to show the Orange County judge that Shore should be disqualified for cause, Iredale said.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
• The group said the men’s behavior should disqualify them from leading the academy.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• With Hollier disqualified, Thanedar and Waters are the candidates with the highest profile left in the race.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2024
• But that was still 10 votes short of the 67 votes that would have been necessary to convict Trump and, on a separate vote, to disqualify him from running again.
  — Max Boot, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• But that experience has become more common as the tests, and the bots they are designed to disqualify, evolve.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Genser challenged the assignment, asking that Shore be disqualified from the case.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• In February, Baldwin’s lawyers moved to disqualify Reeb from the case.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• Nothing about having a uterus disqualifies you from being able to sing and dance in tribute to Usher.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 1 July 2024
• Most of us aren’t making crème brûlée on the daily, but that shouldn’t disqualify anyone from owning a culinary torch.
  — Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2022
• Some secretaries of state reject the idea that Trump can be disqualified outright.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Cockrell was disqualified from the 400-meter hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics for running into the wrong lane.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not be disqualified as a candidate from state ballots.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• But his defiance of Trump has disqualified him for many pro-Trump voters.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2023
• The first lawsuit was filed in March and led to the Court of Appeals disqualifying Kulkarni as a candidate days before the primary.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024
• Too much rain can cause a pumpkin to grow too quickly, cracking its flesh open, which would disqualify it from competition.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024