How to Use blacklist in a Sentence

blacklist

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  • The rental company has created a blacklist of bad drivers.
  • He's on the FBI's blacklist.
  • And a lot of that had to do with the blacklist politics of the time.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the Heat of the Night was my first movie coming back from the blacklist.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2022
  • He was also placed on the US blacklist at the end of last year.
    — Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But fear of the blacklist convinced Presser not to start a case.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The suit alleges Mace was never added to the store’s blacklist.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The blacklist would block U.S. investors from taking stakes in the Chinese firms.
    — Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The refusal to add the IRGC to the terror blacklist is shameful but not surprising.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The notion of a master blacklist appears to be gaining steam.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Link wound up on the government’s blacklist — he is banned from China.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • Several Nicaraguan judges will also be named on the new blacklist.
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • Biden also added more companies to the blacklist, bringing the total to 59.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 June 2021
  • Professor Nathan, like Link, is on the Chinese blacklist.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
  • Bankman-Fried said the blacklist allegations are false.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The United Nations published an anti-apartheid blacklist and Norman made the cut.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Collect a blacklist of email senders that should be ignored when collecting email from the victim.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Two weeks later, the board said Mr. Guo belonged on Apple’s China blacklist.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2021
  • Landing on the blacklist will not change Xioami's day-to-day operations.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The blacklist has been a critical blow for Huawei, which has relied on essential technologies from the U.S.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 June 2021
  • And High Noon was not only a metaphor for the blacklist, but it was written by a blacklisted screenwriter, Carl Foreman.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Akhund, who is on a United Nations blacklist, led the opposition to handing him over.
    — NBC News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • This letter transformed the old blacklist into new blackmail.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Israelis pressed Sullivan about the reasons behind the blacklist decision.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The studio system is crumbling and the blacklist is threatening their closest allies.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • Sjoerdsma is also on a blacklist of Russia for being critical of the regime.
    — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2021
  • One of the company’s subsidiaries was added to a U.S. export blacklist in 2019, also for its involvement with Xinjiang.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The new order expands on an earlier, Trump-era blacklist and brings to 59 the total number of Chinese firms banned from U.S. investment.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • Before being placed on a blacklist by the Trump administration, Huawei was one of the U.S. chip sector’s biggest customers.
    — Andy Purdy, Fortune, 9 May 2021
  • And that was because, and this is according to a company, that was because its Hong Kong entity was on that Treasury blacklist.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
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  • Belarus and Iran have also been blacklisted from the event for their ties to Russia.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Those who did so would be blacklisted from other jobs with the DCCC.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 30 July 2019
  • But in blacklisting Chinese drones, Cape runs the risk of hampering its own business, at least in the short term.
    — Joshua Brusteinbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • But when a movie star got blacklisted, that had a worldwide effect.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Among those who were blacklisted was Loeb, who played Jake Goldberg, Molly’s husband on the show.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • In one attempt to avoid snarling Russian exports, the EU watered down a plan to blacklist vessels that violate the cap.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • If anybody in this industry wishes to blacklist me or being on the side of right and good, then whatever.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Brown was blacklisted, left to toil in his New York roots, and then wander aimlessly back to the outskirts of Dayton, a young man without a roadmap.
    — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The only other countries that are blacklisted are North Korea and Iran.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
  • India wants China to join the effort to blacklist Pakistan, which could bring Pakistan’s economy to its knees.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Bernstein was nearly blacklisted in the nineteen-fifties—twice.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • To combat the issue, Venmo blacklisted tens of thousands of users whose accounts had been flagged as suspicious.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2018
  • He was blacklisted in 1981 by Hungary’s communist regime and mostly banned from working under his own name for a decade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The actors spearheading the drive — who have requested anonymity for fear of being blacklisted — have consulted with a group of around 200 peers for more than six months.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, backlash against the Memphis Zoo continued, with many calling for the zoo to be blacklisted from future panda loans.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • She has been blacklisted as a performer in China for her political stance.
    — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The way to do that isn’t to blacklist everyone who ever worked for a big corporation or to limit recruitment to friends and former colleagues.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • In August, the Texas comptroller’s office named the firm among the 10 financial companies now blacklisted from doing business with the state.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Saudi monarchy has no tolerance for Hamas and hoped that Washington would blacklist the companies, the officials said.
    — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Ho is among those who have been blacklisted, banned from the mainland, had concerts canceled and lost sponsorship deals because of their pro-democracy activism.
    — Alice Su, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • In response to her report, the city spending panel voted to cancel contracts with Holabird and blacklist the company.
    — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Meanwhile, employees feel threatened by the creation of websites attempting to blacklist workers who speak out against the war or in support of Palestinians.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • His break, however, was the result of a shift in focus toward movies — not because he was effectively blacklisted.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The single, which feels akin to Pink Floyd’s expansive, ominous electronic rock, has been blacklisted on mainland streaming services and stores.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Some critics, such as billionaire Bill Ackman, asked Harvard to publish the names of the students who signed the statements so that they could be blacklisted from job opportunities.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Israel has called on the rest of the world to blacklist Hamas as a terrorist organization, saying it must be eradicated in the wake of its Oct. 7 rampage across southern Israel that triggered the war.
    — TIME, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Weingram said Bernstein was blacklisted and, as an example, told of how CBS radio refused to air his concerts.
    — cleveland, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Like Landis, most of these people were blacklisted and suffered a twisted penance, battling depression, substance abuse, or both.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
  • The centre is planning to blacklist around 800 preachers from Indonesia who came on a tourist visa and participated in the three-day religious conference.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Officials said members have been blacklisted by the Chinese government and are banned from traveling to China.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2020

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