Sentence examples for disaffected from high-quality English sources.

• They must also win over disaffected Tories.

• The Trump-supporting "disaffected liberal" vlogger Tim Pool tweeted, "Cops need to resign en masses now."

• This allowed him maximise his appeal to moderates and disaffected Republicans during the general election campaign.

• Nonetheless, history shows that income and status differences can be a powerful source of appeal to the disaffected.

• The Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, resigned suddenly last February, following weeks of protests by disaffected groups.

• Goniwe’s death, the township became a crucible of unrest that threatened to embolden disaffected Black South Africans across the land.

• But the biggest threats come from fringe groups, such as ultra-leftists and disaffected youths, not from the mainstream unions or parties.

• Democrats in 2018 found success in Arizona, a state long dominated by the GOP, by appealing to Republicans and independent voters disaffected with Trump.

Use disaffected in a sentence.

• Biden's electoral coalition is a hodgepodge of suburban moderates, disaffected Republicans, traditional working-class Democrats, ethnic minorities and liberal true believers.

• The Catcher in Rye established him as the most celebrated chronicler of urban New York and, in Holden Caulfield, he created the enduring embodiment of disaffected American youth.

• "I never buy tomatoes from supermarkets," she said, echoing the long-standing canon of tomato lovers disaffected by the usually hard, tasteless pink things called tomatoes in the chain stores.

• That’s exactly what happened in the first midterm election of Barack Obama’s presidency, when Republicans and disaffected independent voters showed up in powerful numbers and pro-Obama voters did not.

• The Democratic Party establishment managed to overcome the Sanders insurrection, but Trump carried disaffected Republicans, and some disaffected Obama voters, too, through Election Day.

• Biden presented himself in a crowded Democratic field as a unifier who could appeal to disaffected working-class white voters who abandoned the party in 2016 and tipped the scales for Trump against Hillary Clinton.

• A few moderate Republican senators most disaffected with Trumpism—such as Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney—could band with conservative Democrats to become the crucial negotiating bloc for all major legislation.

• —died March 26, 1979, White Plains, New York), American short-story writer and novelist noted for her disaffected female characters, who often must confront restrictive societal conventions and institutions as they come of age.

disaffected sentence examples

• He added: “What will happen is that any vested interest, whether it is a competitor or a group of workers or anybody that has been disaffected or a former owner … who doesn’t like a deal will launch a campaign to lobby a minister to call something in.”

• His decision last week to arrest 12 opposition figures and to send riot police with tear gas and truncheons to stop several thousand people from reaching an opposition rally angered already disaffected Western donors and strengthened a disorganized opposition.

• So are the risks: millions of disaffected youth, widespread poverty, a violent struggle over resources among Ethiopia’s competing ethnic groups and a range of detractors from inside and outside the government who are either threatened by too much change — or angry that it’s not enough.

• Yang’s decision to exit the race closes out one of the Democratic primary’s most surprising story lines, removing a candidate who developed a fiercely loyal following of disaffected voters from across the ideological spectrum and intrigued even skeptics with his wit, levity and relentless positivity.