How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun

• Omar’s alienation is enhanced by the island’s treeless landscape, scoured by a near-constant gale.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2021
• Understanding that adult emotions have no place in the mind or heart of a child is truly the only way in which to prevent and stop parental alienation.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• What defines Theroux, aside from abs that have been known to make the paparazzi pant, is a brooding, cerebral sense of alienation.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 29 Apr. 2021
• But his sketches of nursing home residents capture the alienation that has been heightened in the pandemic.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• Taking protest to the private homes of public officials, while generally legal, runs high on the alienation scale.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• In the annals of movies about suburban alienation and/or ones that build to iconic train station farewells, never has there been a tearjerker quite so potent.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• Whether at home or the office, strong relationships create meaning, buffering us from alienation, loneliness, and stagnation.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 10 May 2021
• These problems are not solved by armed agents of the state or by prisons, which sow the seeds of more poverty and alienation, while absorbing billions of dollars that might otherwise be spent on public welfare.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
• In contrast to exploitation or suppression or even alienation, involution is presented as part of the natural order of things—like bad weather.
  — Yi-Ling Liu, The New Yorker, 14 May 2021
• What starts as a surface-level ode to solo road trip through the Utah wilderness turns into a moving portrait of familial alienation that toggles between loneliness and freedom.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2021
• Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat share, Aurora seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 July 2024
• This is not some kind of plea to examine the root causes of alienation.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2022
• The reasons for white working-class alienation with the Democrats have shifted from decade to decade.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024
• At what point does solitude become a form of alienation?
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
• Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
  — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
• The drafting of a think piece on the rainbow-washing of Pride and its alienation from its activist origins.
  — Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
• These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• And every move that's happened since the Raiders' 2020 kickoff in Las Vegas has smacked of fan alienation.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
• Only one person takes up his cause: a teenager with her own sense of alienation.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• There is good cause to think that Youngkin’s victory, too, had more to do with the passions of the base than the alienation of suburban parents.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The result is a story of beauty and alienation, the narrative of an only child.
  — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• Her disco hauteur, her hair of Ziggy-est red, the filter of alienation on her beauty, and the seam of coldness in her voice.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Such alienation, along with a desire to be accepted, was a pain Karloff himself knew.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• How much did that alienation of conscious rap play into you not releasing a project since 2009?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• Some parts of the surveys suggest the ramped-up disfavor is due to a growing liberal alienation from the court after the Trump years.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• Promoting a finished project can produce a sense of alienation as well.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• If a child observes one parent talking badly about the other, this disrespects both the parent and the child and paves the way for parental alienation.
  — Michelle Dempsey-Multack, Parents, 14 May 2024
• This is timely in our current age, when isolation and alienation run deep.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024