How to Use siege mentality in a Sentence

siege mentality

noun

• Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
• The intent was to create a siege mentality that feeds into the Kremlin’s central theme: The West wants to bring Russia to its knees.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• The shirts, born, in some cases, from a siege mentality, represent our past.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2017
• And so, in the age of Trump, police and the institutions that represent them continue to double down on their siege mentality.
  — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 1 Sep. 2017
• Who but a small minority would want to organize life around a siege mentality?
  — Renee Diresta, WIRED, 28 July 2019
• Cities may adopt a siege mentality to the environment while being deeply reliant upon it for survival.
  — Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2020
• The siege mentality is exploited and fanned by the authorities.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Rather than dwell on the unrest and surrender to a siege mentality, Afghans attempt to create a semblance of stability by devoting their attention to the day at hand.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
• Jewish Caricatures The attacks have also brought out a siege mentality among some of his most ardent supporters.
  — Thomas Penny, Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• For some career professionals, a siege mentality has taken hold.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, Katie Benner and Peter Baker, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• Maxwell and Shields have a good appreciation for the psyche of bitter white Southerners — formed by defeat in the Civil War and nurtured by a siege mentality in which the enemy became the federal government.
  — Curtis Wilkie, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• Amid a rash of burglaries this year — brazen, sometimes shockingly crafty invasions — residents are adopting a siege mentality.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• And as the mask of neutrality slips, a siege mentality is taking hold, signaling a return to the early days of explicitly partisan and ideological policing.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024