How to Use alienate in a Sentence

alienate

verb

• He is alienated, set apart from the rest of the world by his own making.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2024
• The beer brand ended up alienating all parties in the process.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Reports on Wednesday were that the Dodgers feel the same way, not wanting to alienate some or most of the fan base.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Ankara could no longer afford to alienate rich Gulf states.
  — Jomana Karadsheh and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• So for an artist to come out and talk conscious, you’ll get alienated.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• In real life, all this does is alienate your team and drive away your best workers.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• From the start of her career, Sweet embraced a brand of politics that aimed to alienate no one.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• The most likely outcome will simply be to alienate her from you.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• That would alienate even more people who can’t afford to pay $50 a night to pitch a tent on public lands.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2022
• But the last thing any leader wants to do is alienate those who hold the power of rescue in this make-or-break moment.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is not a show afraid to alienate its audience or push past their comfort zone.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
• The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• There’s no way to grow by a factor of five, of course, without alienating some loyal diehards.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• Any new path brings some members on board but alienates others.
  — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Someone who is in love with her daughter and alienated from her.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• The Dolphins would not want to alienate a large portion of the fan base that may not want to see the team pursue a player with this troubling cloud over him.
  — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• Likely not finding its way to that resume: alienating most of the teachers in the building.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• The kiss appeared to give in to these fan demands while alienating a different part of the fandom who felt the kiss didn’t make any sense.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• China, the world’s second largest economy, may be too big to alienate now.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• The ending to this story doesn’t have to feel so inevitable, like this slow, alienating death march toward ...
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The history is harsh but Williams foregrounds a structure that doesn’t alienate.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• The pope was also worried, the book shows, that opposing the Führer would alienate millions of German Catholics.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• But Bill’s going to double down on that sadness and alienate Willie, the one person who is truly there for him.
  — Kimberly Potts, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
• The trick will be to expand the U.S. customer base without alienating Slurpee/hotdog fans.
  — Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
• In adding these features to new grills, though, the company wants to be careful not to alienate current loyal users.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The series may alienate fans of the MCU who are used to svelte Avengers battling evil in billion-dollar productions.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• But questions remain over how far Beijing will go to alienate the West and put its own economy at risk.
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2022
• But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.
  — hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
• For blind visitors, this can feel alienating—a barrier to connecting with the history and culture behind those glass cases.
  — M. Leona Godin, AFAR Media, 3 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025