How to Use disqualify in a Sentence

disqualify

verb
  • His poor eyesight disqualified him from becoming a pilot.
  • She has been disqualified as a trustee for nine years.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • But Page ran out of bounds, so he is disqualified.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
  • That doesn’t disqualify it from cult status down the line.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And more than two dozen states have rules on the books that disqualify ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
    — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • He is disqualified from serving in that role.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The amount was high enough to disqualify her family for food stamps.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Brown was disqualified last year in the 55 after a false start.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That’s when he was disqualified.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The two laws would disqualify votes cast in the wrong precinct and put an end to ballot collection.
    — Monica D. Spencer, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2021
  • Teams that go to 0-2 are disqualified.
    — Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 8 May 2026
  • Why isn't that disqualifying for the job?
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • She was followed by four men, one of whom was disqualified for coming out of the water in the wrong place.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • She was followed by four men, one of whom was disqualified for coming out of the water in the wrong place.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • By the time the trainees reached the tower, two had been disqualified for marching too slowly.
    — Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • Nguyen was included in the poll though he was disqualified from the ballot.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Bonzi threatened to walk off the court at one point and called for the Russian to be disqualified.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Both schools were disqualified from playing in the final.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Kennedy said in the letter that her cousin’s views on vaccines are disqualifying.
    — Amanda Seitz and Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The point of these cardiac screenings is not to disqualify athletes.
    — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • For your actions, you were penalized and disqualified from the game.
    — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The heartbreak for him is that a bad rule might disqualify him from service, not that the system itself might be bad.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The kind of things that used to be disqualifying for candidates are now two-day stories.
    — NBC news, 31 May 2026
  • They were disqualified for passing the baton outside the changeover zone.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • To be clear, this does not disqualify the people in the film — real or fictional — from help.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • If the court finds the challenge valid, candidates will be disqualified.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • To be clear, wealth itself is not disqualifying.
    — John Shallman, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • Don’t get a speeding ticket or you’re disqualified.
    — Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • That could mean Fong gets disqualified from the race, so there’s still uncertainty here.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, the kākāpō—the world’s heaviest parrot—was disqualified for winning too many times.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023

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