How to Use disqualify in a Sentence

disqualify

verb
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  • His poor eyesight disqualified him from becoming a pilot.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nascar told his team that he was disqualified from competing in the rest of the event, so Williams decided to park the car on the frontstretch as a protest to the call.
    — Joseph Wolkin, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Nguyen was included in the poll though he was disqualified from the ballot.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Three days later, Dancer’s Image is disqualified when traces of a painkiller are found in tests.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
  • The Colorado Supreme Court became the first in the nation to hold that Trump is disqualified from holding office again.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The point of these cardiac screenings is not to disqualify athletes.
    — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • But Purdy can also disqualify himself in the next two years and save the 49ers from themselves.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • Then the defense team submitted a motion to disqualify Gull as a judge in Allen’s case.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2024
  • By the standard of any profession, a failure this grave would disqualify a person from the job.
    — John Dickerson, CBS News, 24 July 2022
  • This once would have been enough to disqualify her from being viewed in Japan as Japanese.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • 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
  • If the court finds the challenge valid, candidates will be disqualified.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Her teacher, Wang, has been given a warning and disqualified from teachers' awards for the year.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Last year, the kākāpō—the world’s heaviest parrot—was disqualified for winning too many times.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Roman is asking for the prosecutors to be disqualified and for the charges against him to be dismissed.
    — Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That could mean Fong gets disqualified from the race, so there’s still uncertainty here.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The deputy public defenders had to show the Orange County judge that Shore should be disqualified for cause, Iredale said.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
  • Then the news broke that a THC-positive drug test would disqualify her from competing in the Olympic 100-meter race.
    — Essence, 7 July 2021
  • The group said the men’s behavior should disqualify them from leading the academy.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • With Hollier disqualified, Thanedar and Waters are the candidates with the highest profile left in the race.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2024
  • But that was still 10 votes short of the 67 votes that would have been necessary to convict Trump and, on a separate vote, to disqualify him from running again.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • But that experience has become more common as the tests, and the bots they are designed to disqualify, evolve.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Genser challenged the assignment, asking that Shore be disqualified from the case.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • In February, Baldwin’s lawyers moved to disqualify Reeb from the case.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Nothing about having a uterus disqualifies you from being able to sing and dance in tribute to Usher.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 1 July 2024
  • And remember, Bowman actually made the final eight last year until he was disqualified after the race, which put Logano into that round instead.
    — Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • That is by no means disqualifying — never forget that Kung Fu Panda is a movie series for children — but this third film doesn’t quite find a harmony between martial-arts stakes and animal slapstick the way 1 and 2 did.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025

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