How to Use consumerism in a Sentence

consumerism

noun

• Sober bars are popping up all over the country in the face of health-conscious consumerism.
  — Grace Connatser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2019
• Her pieces are collide-o-scopic mashups of materialism and consumerism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• Prime Day draws you in, not just to Amazon Prime membership but to a whole world of seamless consumerism.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 14 July 2019
• Starbucks is now shorthand for vanilla consumerism, and Twitter has its own section in the Mueller report.
  — Mary McNamara, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• Included could be practical units on consumerism, the pitfalls of credit card debt, how to set up 401K’s, etc.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
• There is something about these cotton shirts suspended by chains in an industrial warehouse that reconnects you with the labor involved in our consumerism.
  — Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 22 July 2019
• In the film, Earth has been destroyed by corporate greed and consumerism, with humans abandoning the planet and finding solace on spaceships.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Strollers have become a status identifier, a repository for parenting anxiety, and an emblem of consumerism run amok.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 July 2024
• These prophetic words may serve as a type of key for entering this special space, where Clemente's art provides an antidote to the media saturation and consumerism beyond its gates.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• His lawyers stressed that the work is a metaphor for consumerism.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
• The stunt, meant as a critique of empty consumerism, only added to the hype.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
• Such as: Can consumerism be a form of social mind control?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• Sometimes, socialists present it as proof of the evils of consumerism.
  — Nic Rowan, National Review, 29 May 2021
• To help you, follow these four rules for no-regrets consumerism.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Some of the leading ’68ers took him as a model of aloofness from the corrupting tide of consumerism.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• There was, no doubt, a critique of American consumerism somewhere in them, but that wasn’t the thrust of what they were meant to do.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• This is at odds with the contemporary style of consumerism.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• The post angered social media users in Korea, who blamed the trend on the fear of missing out on consumerism.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• This was the very secret to consumerism working in a savvy, self-conscious culture.
  — Dana Spiotta, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• Odell suggests a slowing down that has nothing to do with consumerism.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
• Not the mass consumerism, or the festivities, or the lights, or the presents, but theology.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 2 Dec. 2021
• If any of the hand-wringers really wanted to sever Christmas from consumerism, now would be the time.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2020
• As in the novel, love and death, consumerism and chemicals, a sense of home and a sense of horror are woven throughout.
  — Josh Zajdman, Town & Country, 30 Dec. 2022
• A lot of your recent work is sort of dystopian, with a heavy dose of political satire and satire of consumerism.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• The rise of fast fashion (fueled by the rise of consumerism) has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste.
  — refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• The rise of fast fashion (fuelled by the rise of consumerism) has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste.
  — refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• But the Princess Closet is not just a narcissistic ode to consumerism.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
• Your image for the cover is a gentle critique of consumerism.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Because London is a second home to so many rich people from abroad, the city has long been a bastion of gaudy consumerism.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• There’s nothing like consumerism to get people fired up about saving the planet.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024