How to Use nativism in a Sentence

nativism

noun

• Their opponents fear the rise of a strain of nativism not seen in decades.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• Every place has its own form of nativism, its own smell test.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
• The plot below has sexism on the x-axis, and nativism on the y-axis.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010
• Against this backdrop, Schuyler’s push to include Lazarus’ poem on the statue was a retort to nativism.
  — Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• There is nothing to address the nation’s viral playacting, the elitist posturing of the left and the nativism of the right.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• But plenty of it was also driven by a toxic blend of nativism and anti-Semitism.
  — Noah Isenberg, The New Republic, 3 July 2018
• The rise of nativism is having an impact on the politics, even if the candidates aren't winning.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• The political nativism against the Chinese was based on a racist theory that the Chinese were slaves.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
• America First nativism and the allegation that Hillary Clinton broke the law with her emails.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• However, American nativism of this sort can be traced to a much slower age.
  — Michael D'antonio and James Cohen, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• But voters also disliked Trump's nativism and (sort of) elected him.
  — David Faris, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2020
• Despite nativism taking hold in the U.S. and Europe, moral outrage over the plight of the Rohingya should be backed by more than financial support alone.
  — Bill Richardson, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• But nativism never left, and the legacy of the Know Nothings has been apparent in policies aimed at each new wave of immigrants.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• Amid the stagnation, an influx of migrants and refugees has led to rising nativism and a rightward lurch in the country's politics.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The film explains how a toxic stew of 1930s nativism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia aided and abetted the Nazi death machine.
  — Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• Who chose nativism, hatred, and white supremacy over their own interests?
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
• But Farage’s xenophobia and nativism seem at least as important as his populism.
  — Julian Gewirtz, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Ilhan’s historic election in 2018 as the first Somali refugee and one of two Muslim women in Congress dovetailed with Trump’s era and the rise of populism and nativism.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz Africa, 24 July 2019
• Growing nativism and the rise of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany has challenged the place of Turkish immigrants there.
  — chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• At the heart of Trumpian nativism is the conviction that the West’s great prosperity reflects the virtues of its people; the poverty of the nonwhite world reflects the moral vices of its people; and, thus, the former owes no debts to the latter.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Jan. 2018
• But, in an age of nativism and protectionism, other ways of seeing the world now predominate.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• In a country built by migrants, currents of nativism and xenophobia are on the rise, with bluster of walls going up and mass deportations.
  — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
• In the past few years, however, the community the authors had been studying allied itself en masse with the sweep of American nativism.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
• The inequity created by this tenuous class of immigrants is the source of the nativism on which Mr. Trump capitalized.
  — Paul Donnelly, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• There was the Great Recession, the aftereffects of which hollowed out communities that thrilled to Trump’s nativism.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 5 May 2018
• The issues are real and urgent, but that nativism is the solution is a dangerous illusion.
  — Elif Shafak, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
• But economic anxiety is triggered by nativism, not the other way around.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
• Many blacks, for their part, say the royal wedding is a distraction from the rise of intolerance and anti-immigrant nativism in Brexit-era Britain.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2018
• They are related: each moment suggests an America of testosterone and bluster, of xenophobia and nativism, of my way or the highway.
  — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
• Lest that sound like an ecological echo of nativism, the narrator is actually thinking about the youngest branch of Sam Dent’s family tree, and getting ready to tell us a tragic story about it.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024