How to Use privilege in a Sentence

privilege

1 of 2 noun

• He lived a life of wealth and privilege.
• Good health care should be a right and not a privilege.
• We had the privilege of being invited to the party.
• I had the privilege of knowing your grandfather.
• And for the privilege of opening their arms to the world.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2022
• And it's been a privilege to work with you on the hits and the misses.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
• In 2024, in the face of a genocide, that’s a privilege.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• Evans was to pay Marsh for the privilege of sharing the post.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• So that is a privilege of ours to be able not to do that.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2021
• And that, in and of itself, would be enough to be a privilege.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 18 Apr. 2022
• That’s the guy Brissett had the privilege to watch work day in and day out.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2017
• Does the Wives’ privilege protect them enough to run around with the guards?
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• And to be quite a big part of it is an honor and a privilege.
  — Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• What a privilege to be a part of this program for the last 25 years.
  — ABC News, 14 Nov. 2021
• So far, the arbiters of the term have been white men of privilege, but so what?
  — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• But there is no such privilege for the Cougars, not this week.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
• Not many artists have the privilege of being able to say they’ve been part of this.
  — Hanaa’ Tameez, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
• Michael, thank you for the privilege of being with you.
  — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
• Still, the right to vote remained a white, male privilege for decades.
  — Brittny Mejiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Neither one did and were paid by the Dodgers for that privilege.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Fans are dying to know who had the honor, the privilege.
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 11 June 2018
• Now, that privilege can change in the moment of a traffic stop….
  — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• He was born into wealth and privilege but heard a calling to serve the poor.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Chris will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 May 2018
• To me, the least that people with privilege can be doing...
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• She will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of meeting her.
  — courant.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• To bring a brand-new play and to originate a brand-new play is such a privilege.
  — Michael Gioia, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• This is a privilege that so few authors get, to see their worlds brought to life right in front of their eyes.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 17 Dec. 2020
• Those who complied were granted privileges such as access to more and better food, and even possession of slaves.
  — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
• Because this is a perfect example of just how loosely the privilege is being used.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024

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privilege

2 of 2 verb

• The new tax laws unfairly privilege the rich.
• And in a few days, Avila won’t be privileged with the same view.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2018
• This has privileged longer shows—the more looks, the more potential page views.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
• We are honored and privileged to be able to cover all the action on the ice for you guys from Pyeongchang 2018.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
• We are privileged as a congregation to open our doors to the stranger.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• That system has evolved to privilege a certain kind of movie.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 July 2017
• The reverse is true of those who see actors as privileged: 25% would be willing to pay more but 62% would not.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• This is a hotel that privileges the senses—taste itself, in all meanings of the word.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
• The company had said the documents produced by that probe, sought by the SFO, were privileged.
  — Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• The championing of free speech must not privilege any immutable notion of the truth to the exclusion of others.
  — chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Issues not typically felt by those privileged enough to be in the room!
  — Alida Draudt, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• We have been honored and privileged to be part of the Medina community for the last 31 years.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• In a way, these anxieties are for the privileged: Only 29% of the American workforce can do their jobs from home.
  — Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• More broadly, there is a tendency in our culture to privilege the future over the past.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2021
• All of those factors played a role here and will privilege a moribund industry at the expense of one that is growing.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• Those who breathed it were privileged, but any dreamland could become a nightmare.
  — Tara Knight, The Root, 13 May 2018
• His wealth, his fortune, and his fame should not privilege him nor protect him from being met with the sternest punishment that there is.
  — Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2018
• On the other hand, UX design also privileges out-of-the-box genius to solve design problems.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
• Johnson, now a ticket taker, feels privileged to have worked so long in Detroit.
  — Curtis Rush, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• There, a focus on wellness is central, and travelers have privileged access to the Tigers Nest Monastery.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2017
• In effect, then, the plan is to privilege one energy source over another.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2011
• So, my fellow folks privileged enough to be able to work from home during this crisis, below are some picks in a bunch of that might make working from home more bearable.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• The museums privileged historic art, and LA had few galleries.
  — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• And their rules often privilege those already in power.
  — T.c. Sottek, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2021
• Even if the communication between Trump and Comey had been privileged, Trump may have thrown away that privilege in a tweet storm.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 12 June 2017
• Comey makes the same error as Sanders by privileging Trump’s narrative.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
• The Senate’s rules privilege the majority, which controls the agenda and floor time.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• The works explore a beloved theme of the revolutionary filmmaker: the malevolent pretensions of the rich, who seek to hold on to privilege as the world around them explodes.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Much like the multiplicity of Black and Indigenous characters in a genre that rarely privileges their point of view, the contradictions of Bass’ new career form the backdrop to his main adventures.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Beginning in the 1960s, the United States moved toward a strategy that privileges the limitation of damage against its homeland in a nuclear war.
  — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024