How to Use nationalistic in a Sentence

nationalistic

adjective

• The dark side of this can be seen in the rise of the right-wing nationalistic AfD, a party that discards the shame and guilt of the war.
  — Madhvi Ramani, The Week, 2 June 2021
• If that doesn’t turn you into a fiery ball of nationalistic zeal …well, the game starts at 1:35 a.m. Eastern time.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Trump's fiery, nationalistic rhetoric on the campaign trail came back to bite him, as courts cited his words in blocking the ban for months.
  — Ali Vitali, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2017
• But the diverse team which travelled to France in 1938 made waves which fanned the nationalistic flames already ablaze in the south Asian nation.
  — SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• To them, the case was clear-cut, and the Australian outrage overly nationalistic.
  — Kristen Gelineau | Ap, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• The Flag Smashers, we’re told, preferred the more chaotic, less nationalistic world of the previous five years.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2021
• When Xi first took the helm in 2012, few saw him as becoming the supreme leader of today’s brash, nationalistic China.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• In their view, Bush was an insular, nationalistic, chest-thumping cowboy who had turned his back on the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Mar. 2021
• But that nationalistic message will have consequences outside Brazil’s borders, and could even shift the country’s role in the region and the world.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• Very mob rule, nationalistic, racist, all these things that are being linked with it, largely due to Donald Trump’s pushing it.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Oct. 2018
• Chasing the dream, the money, the nationalistic pride had served as an invaluable carrot.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
• Global Times, a nationalistic newspaper of the Communist Party, seized on the comments to declare that the plot had been foiled.
  — Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• Fans can also take on a nationalistic tone, even calling for China to stop sending pandas to the United States.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 June 2024
• Since its first sighting, it has been printed onto t-shirts, posters and cars across Russia as a nationalistic pro-war emblem.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
• Even at a time of strong nationalistic sentiment and high tension with the West, many hope to immigrate to Western countries.
  — Yaqiu Wang, Twin Cities, 3 Oct. 2019
• Of course, there are also a few nationalistic touches, too.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2023
• At some point Beijing wants to rein that in for fear that these nationalistic sentiments will point toward the government.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• The long arm of the Chinese state does indeed pose serious threats to academic freedom, but the main risk is not from nationalistic students.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Let countries, like El Salvador, take over; China is concerned with the success of its own nationalistic project.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 21 June 2021
• In my experience, the Chinese students of twenty-five years ago were much more nationalistic, and much less aware, than the students of today.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Of course, that would mean Beijing swallowing its pride and reining in the recent nationalistic fervor on trade.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• To their dismay, her father was killed in a nationalistic uprising during this time on the island.
  — courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• At the time, Israel said that Poland’s nationalistic government was also trying to control the curriculum of the trips.
  — Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Given the current nationalistic mood in China, such a splashy reception for a foreign artist may seem odd.
  — R.m.l. | Beijing, The Economist, 11 Sep. 2019
• This quote might have been damaging on its own, but Trump spun his greed into a populist, nationalistic message.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 28 June 2017
• The rhetoric was nationalistic and religious, with some speakers proclaiming the United States to be a Christian nation at its root.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Items 2 and 3 are where the nationalistic elements emerge.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
• Now that government has collapsed, opening the door for Netanyahu to sweep back into power on a nationalistic right-wing slate.
  — Tovah Lazaroff, NBC News, 22 June 2022
• The more nationalistic Beijing becomes, the harder Xi may try to pick a fight—so the United States should avoid giving him any extra ammunition.
  — Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2022
• As a result, both the Turkish people and their leader have lately become more paranoid and nationalistic.
  — Aykan Erdemir, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024