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How to use disown in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Disown means to refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. Example: “Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.”

Examples of disown by meaning

verbTo refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

  • Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.

More sentences with disown

  • They may be chanceless children, disowned and unloved, for whom life holds no promise.1983, The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review, volumes 95-97, page 38. From the entry chanceless
  • Lesbophobes disown all interest not only in lesbians themselves but also in lesbian films, plays, and novels.1972, Natalie Gittelson, The Erotic Life of the American Wife, Delacorte Press, published 1972, page 222. From the entry lesbophobe
  • 'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him.2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, page 73. From the entry forgive and forget
  • He was indeed a pillar of support to many young Ahmadists who were disowned by their parents for abandoning orthodox Islam.1999, Siyan Oyeweso, Eminent Yoruba Muslims of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, page 125. From the entry Ahmadist
  • Insarov's and Elena's idealism is not unnaturally coloured with Quixotic elements which the realists of the sixties themselves would have disowned.1980, Robert Dessaix, Turgenev, the Quest for Faith, page 63. From the entry quixotic
  • "At most it is an accident of birth I disown.1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in A Texas Ranger. From the entry accident of birth
  • I’ve returned everything that I borrowed and then some, but it never sat well with her father and he disowned her right along with me.2016, William McChesney, “Back to the War”, in Retribution: They Must All Die, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry dribble
  • To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23. From the entry clanlessness
  • As a mechanism of defense, entitlement may be protectively maintained, denied, or disowned, and also projected to make the leader feel entitled.2003, Richard M. Billow, Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry entitled
  • The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history. From the entry bedrift
  • Toronto rapper Drake has publicly disowned the new concert film Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage – and Drizzy's disdain might be the most interesting thing about the movie.2015 March 18, Nick Patch, “Five things we learn from the unofficial Drake documentary”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The…. From the entry Drizzy
  • Her father angrily disowned her and the young couple had no means of livelihood so they opened a winehouse where Wên-chün herself served behind the counter.1971, Yin C. Liu, Tao Tao Sanders, “Chapter 10: Chinese Literature”, in David Marshall Lang, editor, A Guide to Eastern Literatures…. From the entry winehouse

Meaning of disown

  1. verb To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
  2. verb To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
  3. verb To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.

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Questions about disown in a sentence

How do you use disown in a sentence?
Disown is used as a verb. For example: “Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.”
What is a short sentence with disown?
“"At most it is an accident of birth I disown.”
What does disown mean?
Disown means to refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disown (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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