How to Use discrimination in a Sentence

discrimination

noun
  • He sued the company for age discrimination.
  • The law prohibits discrimination in hiring.
  • But that doesn’t mean clubs are off the hook for claims of discrimination.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
  • Each had to learn how to deal with the daily discrimination in his own way.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Our health care and our rights to live free from discrimination depend on it.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2018
  • And adding to the tragedy is the discrimination and scorn that was heaped upon them.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
  • It’s built on centuries of discrimination and doesn’t stop in one or two years.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2022
  • But your names are being weaponized and tied to lies and discrimination.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The root cause of many forms of discrimination is hate grounded in fear of the unknown.
    — Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2021
  • There’s no doubt that there was discrimination.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In many families, race and discrimination are at the top of the list.
    — Fatima Varner, star-telegram, 17 June 2018
  • And yes, some will see that as discrimination, even when that is not the intention.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • The case has stood out because few racial discrimination suits reach French courts.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
  • But experts said that discrimination against female trees is not a cause.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
  • That is blatant discrimination based on the slant of a speaker’s ideas.
    — S.m. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
  • No visas, no passports, no discrimination based on a person’s race or wealth.
    — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The stops have been blamed for enabling racial discrimination.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • These bans are blatant discrimination, and the Court should say so.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • To be clear, this case is not one of discrimination, though that word has popped up a lot in opinion pieces about this restaurant.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The law protects styles such as braids, locks, Afros and twists from discrimination.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Tupac’s 90s was a hard time, where there was a lot of discrimination.
    — Drew Fortune, VanityFair.com, 13 June 2017
  • In the past, such rhetoric has led to violence and discrimination.
    — Meredith Oyen / Made By History, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Kravitz admitted that this discrimination was a very tough pill to swallow at the time.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In this play, a bold purple ladybug fights discrimination to find her place in the world.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But first, here's your stop-with-the-trans-discrimination week in review, in Haiku.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Pashaei has seen close friends who are female athletes face this discrimination and are pursued by the regime.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • It can be used to describe a broad range of discrimination against female consumers.
    — Murphy Zhao, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The women told tales of discrimination both overt and subtle.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 June 2017
  • Many people claimed the men were subject to racial discrimination.
    — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • At the university there seemed to be no racial discrimination at all.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020

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