How to Use the American dream in a Sentence

the American dream

noun phrase

• For renters, high home prices are putting the American dream out of reach.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
• Although pessimism about the American dream has grown across groups, the change is sharpest among young adults.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• Business For some, TikTok is a path to riches and the American dream.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• And in many parts of nation, the American dream of owning your own home seems as out of reach as owning a racing yacht.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• My grandparents worked hard, played by the rules, and achieved the American dream that enabled their children to succeed.
  — Mike Levin, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
• This is a roller coaster ride over 10 hour-long episodes discussing really what boils down to the American dream.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• Some are still chasing the American dream long after their prime working years.
  — Jeffrey E. Singer, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• In an interview with Rolling Stone at the time, Wolin explained that the rapper will continue to explore the motif of the American dream over the next year.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• This film explores the hopes, dreams and fears of a Southeast Asian parent for his daughter, pursuing the American dream.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Within moments, Mike and Archie get into it over race and economics and the American dream.
  — Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
• Homeownership has always been one of the hallmarks of the American dream.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
• In the end, Brown’s debut feature explores the poisonous heart of the American dream sparking a nightmare for all involved.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their struggles track the challenges many people are facing in achieving the American dream.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• Overall, Gen Z-ers are also far more skeptical about the pursuit of the American dream than their elders.
  — Michèle Lamont, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• Home ownership was supposed to be the American dream, the thing to which the entire middle class could not only aspire but also achieve.
  — E. J. Antoni, National Review, 21 Oct. 2023
• Even in a frozen housing market, some are living out the American dream by purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, and putting just 3.5% down.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Homeownership used to be an attainable goal for most adults—the epitome of the American dream come true.
  — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2024
• Early homeownership long has been part of the American dream.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
• California always has and always will embody the American dream, that each of us matters and each of us belongs.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• For some of the longtime Korean merchants, the swap meet’s decline is a depressing end to their careers, even as their toil there has earned them a modest version of the American dream.
  — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Is this sometimes tongue-and-cheek or knee-jerk militancy a disguise for the pursuit of the American dream, which is exported worldwide by way of Black music?
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Americans revised the idea of the American dream to its current iteration, which was the idea that America has the right circumstances.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
• There’s little narration except the women’s interviews, but the point is clear anyway: Few, if any of these women are getting the American dream.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• But the very climates that made these semitropical playgrounds the American dream of the 20th century threaten to break their reputations in the 21st century.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Like a lot of millennials, the 30-something Mr. Alas is slower than people in prior generations to pursue this piece of the American dream.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
• Each of the podcast’s incisive, scrappy seasons looks, with plenty of side eye, at a different aspect of the American dream and the swindles and institutions that claim to make that dream come true.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Johnsons were planning to sell some of the farmland to Black people who aspired to the American dream of homeownership but were shut out of white neighborhoods by racist banking and zoning policies.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• My argument is that the central concern people have, including progressives, is that the American dream has slipped away, that people don’t think that their lives or their kids’ lives are going to be as good as the lives of their parents.
  — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• My parents never explicitly told us about the American dream.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• In the running allegory of this scathing, slapstick sendup of the American dream, the road to riches — or simple economic security — runs through a feral ecosystem of predators and prey.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024