How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun

• We are all faced with a choice of how to deal with it: speak out and put up with the alienation, or adapt and bury your true self.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• Few songs in the past year have better captured the unease and alienation of this past year.
  — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• This is not some kind of plea to examine the root causes of alienation.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2022
• The reasons for white working-class alienation with the Democrats have shifted from decade to decade.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024
• But western alienation — the sense that the rest of Canada has stacked the deck against the country’s west — is as old as the country itself.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• Walford says the alienation of the vampire character seemed to mirror his own state of mind at the time.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• At what point does solitude become a form of alienation?
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
• Why not stay the course and leave Penelope within the realm of ambiguous alienation?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
• Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
  — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
• The drafting of a think piece on the rainbow-washing of Pride and its alienation from its activist origins.
  — Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
• These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• And every move that's happened since the Raiders' 2020 kickoff in Las Vegas has smacked of fan alienation.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
• Only one person takes up his cause: a teenager with her own sense of alienation.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• There is good cause to think that Youngkin’s victory, too, had more to do with the passions of the base than the alienation of suburban parents.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• So far, McCracken says, the songs project an alienation and hooky catharsis redolent of the group’s 2002 debut.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
• The result is a story of beauty and alienation, the narrative of an only child.
  — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• While Trump was clearly more pro-Putin than Clinton, the goal was less a Trump win as much as sowing distrust and alienation.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• Black users have taken to the site to call out racial discrimination in the workplace and share their stories of alienation on the job.
  — Ashanti M. Martin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• Her disco hauteur, her hair of Ziggy-est red, the filter of alienation on her beauty, and the seam of coldness in her voice.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Such alienation, along with a desire to be accepted, was a pain Karloff himself knew.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• Tilton filed a suit against Beecher for alienation of affection.
  — John Strausbaugh, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• How much did that alienation of conscious rap play into you not releasing a project since 2009?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• But for Caruso, throwing herself into the role of a girl who overcomes a sense of alienation was a no-brainer.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2019
• Can people struggling with their own alienations look beyond themselves to the pain of others?
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• Some parts of the surveys suggest the ramped-up disfavor is due to a growing liberal alienation from the court after the Trump years.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• Promoting a finished project can produce a sense of alienation as well.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• Consumers are very perceptive, and this can lead to audience alienation.
  — Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Such alienation seems like one seed from which Vance’s politics eventually sprouted.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025