How to Use alienated in a Sentence

alienated

adjective

• That alienated adults and as each episode went by it descended even more into farce.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Along with the protests came pleas from students to take care of one another and to reach out to those who may feel alienated.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• These are the kids who end up disenfranchised, marginalized and alienated.
  — Ross Greene, Time, 16 Feb. 2018
• How many alienated and disturbed young men are out there, rattling around peaceful suburbs like Parkland?
  — Eugene Robinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2018
• Too many people feel alienated from one another and from any sense of belonging or higher purpose.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• Still, in the weeks following my visit to Rio, Greenwald seemed to grow self-conscious of his alienated stance.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• Some, especially children, feel alienated, while others are bored: Nothing is open and there is nothing to do.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Dec. 2017
• In turn, service members feel increasingly alienated and broad-brushed, which forces them to bury their thoughts even deeper — leaving a larger space for that mythos to fill.
  — Matt Young, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• The economic landscape has helped create a frustrated group of people who feel forgotten and alienated.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• And then there’s Dr. Jacoby, whose radio show speaks to the alienated residents of Twin Peaks.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• The alienated and impoverished might feel kinship with Islamist rappers who extol the virtues of violent jihad.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
• Turnout was low in both rounds, suggesting that many Chilean voters, especially those with lower incomes, feel alienated from politics.
  — Jennifer Pribble, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• In past conflicts, heavy-handed military operations against armed groups alienated communities caught in the crossfire.
  — Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
• The legal push for custody arrangements is in large part a result of years of lobbying by fathers' rights advocates who feel alienated from their children and burdened by child-support obligations.
  — Michael Alison Chandler, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The GOP has grown more and more alienated from younger voters.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• Maybe the challenges of sending children back to class alienated mothers at the start of the school year.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• We are alienated from the earth, from our hands, and from one another.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Kailani, for one, had begun to feel alienated at her school.
  — Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• An alienated cop, a stressed and scared cop, can be a more dangerous cop.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 8 Apr. 2018
• Here was a band led by a couple, with a strange, alienated man-child at the microphone.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• Each of the coalitions also has a group that is alienated from its party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• Trending By the play’s end, an alienated Petra and Dr. Stockmann head to their new home.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
• Crump grew up alienated in the home of a relative, Erwin wrote.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• When Major League Baseball returned from the players strike in 1995, teams looked for ways to get back in the good graces of alienated fans.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• True to the heart love the grandmothers, grandfathers and all the other alienated folks.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2021
• With his short Afro and deep, resonant voice, Glenn-Copeland felt alienated from the students around him.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• Tilney’s book eschews the trope of the alienated narrator.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
• On the flipside, there are those who enjoy taking the bus but feel alienated for doing so.
  — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 5 Nov. 2018
• Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Use of the term, which is broadly seen as a dismissal of the Black Lives Matter movement, alienated much of the Nyx membership.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024