How to Use xenophobia in a Sentence

xenophobia

noun

• Are All Refugees platform, said Ozdag was not solely to blame for the soaring xenophobia.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• The fault lines of race, immigration and xenophobia can be traced back to our first arrivals in the United States.
  — Theodore Gonzalves, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
• Chin said there are a number of concrete steps schools can take to stop xenophobia from spreading.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• As the number of migrants and asylum-seekers has grown in recent years, so, too, has xenophobia.
  — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some of it is the product of xenophobia, but its root lies in this history of competition for land.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Indeed, the xenophobia and brutality of the current era are just new models of old ideas.
  — J. Howard Rosier, Chron, 13 Dec. 2022
• Not against immigration: A phrase used by politicians to ward off claims of xenophobia.
  — Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
• The xenophobia is now amplified, many believe, because of rhetoric related to where the virus first took hold.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
• There was a drumbeat of xenophobia, a suspicion of outsiders, ready to condemn the other.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• After what many in the region saw as the naked xenophobia that marked the Donald Trump era, analysts said, Biden’s election had been viewed as a reset.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Any message sent by the U.S. for expelling them would be suffused with cruelty and xenophobia.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• The divisive campaign over Brexit in recent years also fanned a xenophobia that some blame for a rise in racial abuse and attacks.
  — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• A lot of that work was driven by me and my desire to tell stories around the xenophobia and bad science that surrounds that ingredient.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 9 Aug. 2023
• As Steinbeck did some eight decades ago, Cummins calls out this selfishness and xenophobia.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2021
• There’s all sorts of xenophobia about people who are different.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Not that Matthias has been in any way enlightened by his own experience of xenophobia.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• On the other hand, the game suggests that the locals' response is motivated by xenophobia.
  — Reid McCarter, Chron, 1 Dec. 2022
• That was the one chance Republicans had to seize their party back from Trump (and just return to the normal, pre-Trump, run-of-the-mill racist dog-whistling, xenophobia, and warmongering).
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• There's also a lot of xenophobia against Venezuelans in Latin America.
  — Caroll Alvarado and Alfonso Serrano, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• There couldn’t be a revisionism just by making the northerners the villains, at the time there was xenophobia, hate and violence all around.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
• The unvarnished xenophobia of his pitch galvanized a right-wing base and lifted him to the presidency.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• This latest episode tells me that the lessons about xenophobia that the Covid-19 pandemic offered have not been learned here and that leaving Shanghai is the right decision for my family and me.
  — Matthew Bossons, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
• And the National Science Foundation will spend $33 million to study bias and xenophobia.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• That was almost like a branding exercise for American xenophobia, which is as old as time.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• By then, Chinatowns across the nation were already feeling the effects of anti-Asian xenophobia.
  — Karissa Chen, Bon Appétit, 31 May 2022
• Democrats, meanwhile, have come to equate any border enforcement with xenophobia.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• But populists’ use of xenophobia and conspiracy theories can turn that idea on its head.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
• The misogyny and xenophobia of her characters are startlingly aggressive; the book is filled with a bitterness that doesn’t taste quite as clean as rage.
  — Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• That’s a big contrast with Hollywood’s golden age, which was tarnished by xenophobia.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• Whether talking about xenophobia in Idaho or the loss of jobs in West Virginia, the conversations sometimes only scratch the surface of the hurt, fear, pain, and resistance to change that so many of us contend with.
  — Carolyn Finney, Outside Online, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024