How to Use stateless in a Sentence

stateless

adjective

• But Gazans would still be stateless, and for all its rhetoric, Hamas cannot change that by force.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• One of the stateless boys, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, may have helped save everyone’s lives.
  — Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
• Ashkar and her parents were born stateless and have never lived in Palestine.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• It was supposed to be a defining moment for the world's largest stateless ethnic group.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
• There are a lot of people born in the Dominican Republic that are stateless.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Around two million people live in Gaza, most of them the stateless descendants of refugees from what is now Israel.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2018
• Two of the dealers became Dutch nationals, while the others were stateless.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• Then, Willard ran for president in 2012 based on his record as a stateless businessman.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Feb. 2018
• In the decades since, the agency has taken on many functions of a state for stateless Palestinians, such as providing food, health care and schools.
  — Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• With the fall of Bankman-Fried’s empire, all eyes turned to Binance, the stateless exchange with a reputation for rule-skirting.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• In the meantime, they were classified as stateless and issued gray alien passports.
  — Tacita Vero’, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017
• Will tensions cool—or will the move simply set up another conflict between the Turkish state and the stateless Kurds?
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Three of the soccer players and their coach are all stateless ethnic minorities, according to The New York Times.
  — Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
• Because nationality in Bahrain is passed through the father, the child was stateless from birth.
  — Kristen Chick, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
• Three of the players as well as Ekapol were stateless and were granted Thai citizenship last August.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2019
• The Rohingya became the largest stateless population within a country in the world.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• But following the rise of the Nazis in 1933 and her husband's death two years later, Johanna Margarete fled to the Netherlands and was declared stateless.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Under the Assad regime, Kurds were forbidden to teach in their own language, and hundreds of thousands were stateless.
  — The Economist, 18 Oct. 2017
• No country would take in these stateless, penniless Jews.
  — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2020
• For 75 years now, they have been forced to live as a stateless population without the ability to return to their homeland.
  — Michael Vicente Perez, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• Qawuqji was a stateless man, wanted by nearly every colonial power in the Middle East, and yet not fully trusted by many of the Arab leaders at the time.
  — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2017
• Many Muslims fear they will be declared stateless persons.
  — Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS, 20 Jan. 2020
• Reason: general order against stateless Jews between the ages of sixteen and forty-five.
  — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Siddiq, now 33, thinks the Rohingya will be stateless forever.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
• His family is stateless and he’s haunted by the torture his late father suffered when displaced in Kuwait.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• This is one of the world’s largest stateless populaces and it’s constantly in danger, sandwiched between Turkey and Iran.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• The decision to cancel his visa leaves him effectively stateless, and in limbo, like the others.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Two family members claimed to be stateless when they were accepted as refugees.
  — Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• The only time the 1961 Convention rules comes into play is on the rare occasion when the child would otherwise be stateless; in that case, the airline’s country of origin will determine the passport.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024