How to Use alienate in a Sentence

alienate

verb

• That would alienate even more people who can’t afford to pay $50 a night to pitch a tent on public lands.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2022
• But questions remain over how far Beijing will go to alienate the alliance and put its own economy at risk.
  — Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2022
• Do these alienate more mainstream, or older viewers who don't track the kinds of online trends being parodied here?
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• But questions remain over how far Beijing will go to alienate the West and put its own economy at risk.
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2022
• Being angry at them, confronting them, trying to prove them wrong, typically will drive people deeper into the group and further alienate them from you.
  — Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Spamming your clients, or sending content with little or no value, can alienate them, while your team gets frustrated creating content that doesn’t yield results.
  — Ben Meisner, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The MPs fretted about virtue signaling, being seen as overly radical, and alienating their voters.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
• Yandex also grew, in part, by managing not to alienate Vladimir Putin, who became president at the end of 1999.
  — Paul Starobin, Wired, 22 Mar. 2022
• One principal concern is that reacting to these kinds of attacks risks alienating fans who are unhappy with creative choices about a franchise but haven’t tipped over into abusive behavior.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• He is alienated, set apart from the rest of the world by his own making.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2024
• The beer brand ended up alienating all parties in the process.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Reports on Wednesday were that the Dodgers feel the same way, not wanting to alienate some or most of the fan base.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• So for an artist to come out and talk conscious, you’ll get alienated.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• From the start of her career, Sweet embraced a brand of politics that aimed to alienate no one.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the last thing any leader wants to do is alienate those who hold the power of rescue in this make-or-break moment.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is not a show afraid to alienate its audience or push past their comfort zone.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
• The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• There’s no way to grow by a factor of five, of course, without alienating some loyal diehards.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• Any new path brings some members on board but alienates others.
  — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Someone who is in love with her daughter and alienated from her.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• Likely not finding its way to that resume: alienating most of the teachers in the building.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• The kiss appeared to give in to these fan demands while alienating a different part of the fandom who felt the kiss didn’t make any sense.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• China, the world’s second largest economy, may be too big to alienate now.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• The ending to this story doesn’t have to feel so inevitable, like this slow, alienating death march toward ...
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The history is harsh but Williams foregrounds a structure that doesn’t alienate.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• The pope was also worried, the book shows, that opposing the Führer would alienate millions of German Catholics.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• The trick will be to expand the U.S. customer base without alienating Slurpee/hotdog fans.
  — Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
• In adding these features to new grills, though, the company wants to be careful not to alienate current loyal users.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The series may alienate fans of the MCU who are used to svelte Avengers battling evil in billion-dollar productions.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024