How to Use xenophobia in a Sentence

xenophobia

noun

• But the panic, both in that case and in this one, arguably has a tinge of xenophobia as well.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 17 July 2019
• But for all of its tech prowess, the country has light years to go on race and xenophobia.
  — Jennifer Neal, The Root, 20 Dec. 2017
• The xenophobia that has followed the attack hasn’t changed my view.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 29 June 2016
• The xenophobia isn't even limited to the Americans on the show.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Glamour, 27 July 2018
• Are All Refugees platform, said Ozdag was not solely to blame for the soaring xenophobia.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• Since the mid-1990s, observers of Russia have warned that xenophobia is growing there as well.
  — Hannah S. Chapman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• Of course, xenophobia has always assumed the existence of in-groups and out-groups.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• 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
• What that does is create a rhetoric of fear, division and xenophobia.
  — Joseph Pimentel, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
• The deepest stains identified in the Slater case by Conan Doyle were not of blood, but the darker tones of anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
  — The Economist, 7 July 2018
• The seeds of xenophobia are already planted as the fundamental theme of the drama.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• The resistance against racism, xenophobia, and other forms of hate that have escalated around the globe comes in all forms.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence.com, 23 June 2017
• 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
• Extreme populist nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise around the globe, including, of course, in the USA.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019
• Many on the left argued that the law weakened France’s historical support for a right to asylum and played to xenophobia.
  — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• The history of our love/fear relationship with MSG is wrought with bad science and more than a dash of xenophobia.
  — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 20 June 2018
• 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
• The epidemic of hate and xenophobia would have walls built up, but the balm of the American idea builds a golden door where the tired, the poor and the huddled masses of the world are welcomed to seek out a new life.
  — Rev. Ryan Eller, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
• In Europe and here, right-wing nationalism was on the rise, riding a wave of xenophobia in the years since the 2008 financial collapse.
  — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 5 June 2017
• All this is explored through the eyes of Mr Stanley’s two subjects, both of whom resisted the tide of militarism and xenophobia.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• 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
• Is my suspicion of calls from foreign countries a form of xenophobia?
  — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Last week, a man stabbed a Japanese mother and child in the city of Suzhou, and many social media users spewed xenophobia in reaction to the incident.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
• But virulent strains of xenophobia, anti-Asian sentiment, and antisemitism persisted.
  — Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024