How to Use inequality in a Sentence

inequality

noun
  • He has proposed a new system designed to remove inequalities in health care.
  • He accused the company of inequality in its hiring practices.
  • They discussed the problem of inequality between students.
  • What researchers have to say The weight of inequality: What's to blame?
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This inequality has evolved despite Cancún’s rapid expansion consuming huge amounts of green space.
    Ricardo Hernández, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Today, the widening wealth gap and other indicators of inequality suggest that this shift in focus was costly.
    Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Over the last 10 years, Black and white inequality, income, housing, jobs and wages have increased significantly.
    Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Not to mention that in a time of inflation, ballooning economic inequality, and bank runs, her heyday may also feel uncomfortably familiar.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Where there is an inequality in the Trust, the Trustee must further the Grantor's intention, not the Trustee's personal biases.
    Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Race becomes one more thing, like the inequality in income between the characters, or lust, that hangs over the interactions here, silently shaping everyone’s moods and reactions.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But there are wider inequalities that gave rise to the unrest which will take years to resolve.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • More needs to be done to help a group that's been marginalized and had to endure systemic inequality for far too long.
    Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Around the world, inequality has spiked over the last few decades—a trend especially bad here at home.
    Sheila Warren, Fortune Crypto, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The girls, who have a stricter dress code and other more rigid requirements, begin to chafe at the inequality.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In its 352 pages, inequality comes up about a quarter of the way through and passingly thereafter.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • So what's happened with childcare is as inequality has increased, the demand for childcare has gone up and the price of it has gone up.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • Here are some of the top culprits driving inequality in health care—and ideas for overcoming them.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Rising income inequality, the disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S., has been growing for decades.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Confirming that those hardest hit were at the top of the financial dogpile was the fact that wealth inequality also fell over the same time.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As a matter of course, most conversations about the state of the world assume that inequality is getting worse.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • In the study, researchers focused on Cape Town, South Africa, but said the findings were relevant to cities around the world where high inequality also abounds.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The thing that this show helps illuminate is the idea that inequality is a big player in disasters.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • In a country with high levels of gender inequality, policies aimed at closing this gap could go a long way.
    Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • While the fight for gender equality around the globe has made major strides, inequalities still exist in the field of journalism.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The reaction to that video spurred outrage and eventual action by the N.C.A.A. to address some of the systemic inequalities.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Just like today, where every workplace in the world is a great place to work for some, but creates more inequity and income inequality for others.
    Michael C. Bush, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The film gets into the inequality that female athletes face without being too preachy.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Reading further, apparently the lack of shade is racist and a product of inequality.
    wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Atlanta, for all its attractiveness as a city, has the highest income inequality by race in the nation.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Differences in who does and doesn’t call about a medical bill may be exacerbating inequalities in how much people end up paying for health care and who has medical debt.
    Erin Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'inequality.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: