How to Use injustice in a Sentence

injustice

noun
  • The law is part of an effort to correct an old injustice.
  • The organization is devoted to fighting economic injustice.
  • Sweeney doesn’t share these stories with any sense of anger or injustice.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Floyd’s killing, which was captured on video by a bystander, sparked global outrage and a reckoning on racial injustice.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Grieving about individual loss is one; grief or anger about injustice in the world is another.
    Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Rail workers say the particulars of sick leave policy is merely one source of injustice.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Worldwide protests underscored a system of racial injustice.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Descendant does not, at first glance, appear to be a film concerned with environmental injustice.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The Lone Ranger crusading against injustice on his stallion Silver.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The way to deal with past injustices is to ensure everyone has equal opportunity today, starting with our schools, for an example.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At some point, all women are asked to account for themselves, to justify our choices, and to take responsibility even for the injustices done to us.
    Melissa Petro, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Ending global health injustices will require us to embrace new technologies while learning from our past mistakes to ensure history does not repeat itself.
    Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Anne Ramsay, whose 17-year-old daughter died in the shooting, said the sense of injustice her family has experienced started with the massacre but did not end there.
    Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Rants about the injustice of things that are just a part of life.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Their sense of injustice is so fierce, and all those things came back to me.
    Sara Austin, ELLE, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Racial injustice would be the death of the American dream.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Oct. 2018
  • You were all heard then, now my hope is that you are heard in the evolvement of racial injustice.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 10 June 2020
  • To deny that is an injustice and a lie that helps no one.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Lizzo is not one to stay quiet in the midst of injustice.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Men should have to change theirs for a few hundred years to make up for past injustice.
    Dan Schwerin, Vogue, 14 June 2018
  • The writer reflects on racial injustice over the course of of two letters.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2020
  • One thing is for sure, people feel a sense of injustice.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Many pay homage to the victims of long hidden injustices and crimes.
    Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Find a dark hole and cry from the injustice of not having the most normative nob?
    Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The food injustice that exists in prisons and jails across the country.
    Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • All of us are putting forward that there have been injustices on our sides.
    Sammy Mncwabe, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But now the Quest Mall became a symbol of something else — the injustice in their lives.
    Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But any time there is an injustice, Will is all too happy to jump aboard.
    Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Nobody wants to hear a four-minute song about (racial injustice).
    Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The injustice is that the largest emitters are not held accountable for our plight.
    Time, 6 Jan. 2022

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