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How to use blacklist in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Blacklist means a list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked. Example: “The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.”

Examples of blacklist by meaning

nounA list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

  • The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

verbTo place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

  • You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
  • She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.
  • No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020

More sentences with blacklist

  • Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.From the entry sympathy
  • He was blacklisted for refusing to say he wasn't a communist.From the entry blacklisted
  • The printer's anti-features made it hardly worth using: the small $40 ink cartridges get blacklisted after first use to prevent refilling.From the entry anti-feature
  • Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers.2010 November 20, “Long life spam”, in The Economist. From the entry botnet
  • Stephen protests to Bounderby that now he will be blacklisted, and Bounderby, with no regrets whatsoever, hard-heartedly agrees.2006, Claudia Durst Johnson, Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry hard-heartedly
  • We're partitioning MX hosts by network whitelists, blacklists, ignorelists.2003 March 21, Wietse Venema, “check_mx_access, was Re: wishlist”, in mailing.postfix.users (Usenet). From the entry ignorelist
  • Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.1980 August 16, Duncan Mitchel, “Memoirs of a Survivor”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 14. From the entry aberrance
  • “But he’s blacklisted.” ¶ “You can unblacklist him.1964, Don Robertson, A Flag Full of Stars, New York, N. Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 474. From the entry unblacklist
  • He's on the blacklist.” I saw what he meant.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry injudicious
  • He may never be entirely successful, but the difference in being "blacklisted," "greylisted," "bluelisted" or "whitelisted" is considerable.1956, John Cogley, Report on Blacklisting: Radio-television, page 121. From the entry whitelisted
  • Not surprisingly, the Japanese put him on their blacklist and, after the fall of Tunghwa, prepared to raid his place for evidence.1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 352. From the entry Tunghwa
  • However, USA the major buyer of Bangladesh products of frozen shrimps and froglegs has blacklisted several countries of this region including Bangladesh.1979, Bangladesh Economic Survey, page 33. From the entry froglegs
  • And unlike so many accounts of the blacklist that I have read, his is not a quest for self-justification, a tua culpa or a J'Accuse.1973 September 23, Josh Greenfeld, “Blacklisters, Blacklistees Down Memory Lane”, in Los Angeles Times (Book Review section), Los Angeles…. From the entry tua culpa

Meaning of blacklist

  1. noun A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
  2. verb To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

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Questions about blacklist in a sentence

How do you use blacklist in a sentence?
Blacklist is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.”
What is a short sentence with blacklist?
“Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers.”
What does blacklist mean?
Blacklist means a list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blacklist (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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