How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun

• But these will probably not overcome its sense of alienation.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• We are all faced with a choice of how to deal with it: speak out and put up with the alienation, or adapt and bury your true self.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• Gregor Samsa waking up as a cockroach shows us what alienation can be.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2019
• Why not stay the course and leave Penelope within the realm of ambiguous alienation?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
• But western alienation — the sense that the rest of Canada has stacked the deck against the country’s west — is as old as the country itself.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• To commit violence requires a sort of alienation, and over the course of the film, Frank becomes alienated in every sense.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• The widespread unrest reflects a sense of alienation among many people who were already suffering economic hardship.
  — Gonzalo Solano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• People who threaten or commit violence are often themselves the victims of systemic alienation and neglect.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
• Few songs in the past year have better captured the unease and alienation of this past year.
  — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Walford says the alienation of the vampire character seemed to mirror his own state of mind at the time.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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
• So far, McCracken says, the songs project an alienation and hooky catharsis redolent of the group’s 2002 debut.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
• The result is a story of beauty and alienation, the narrative of an only child.
  — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• While Trump was clearly more pro-Putin than Clinton, the goal was less a Trump win as much as sowing distrust and alienation.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• Black users have taken to the site to call out racial discrimination in the workplace and share their stories of alienation on the job.
  — Ashanti M. Martin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Tilton filed a suit against Beecher for alienation of affection.
  — John Strausbaugh, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• How much did that alienation of conscious rap play into you not releasing a project since 2009?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• The group is now seeking to exploit the isolation and alienation felt by Afghans and other Muslim immigrants and refugees struggling to build a life in unfamiliar, secular societies.
  — Dan De Luce, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024