How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun

• 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
• Much of AO3’s story is a story of alienation, of being an online outsider.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 19 Aug. 2019
• Along with further alienation of Israel’s Arab citizens.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Too much emphasis on the self can lead to obnoxious egotism, or desperate loneliness or alienation and paranoia.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Clark’s work, alluring and repellant, generates a disturbance that mirrors the state of self-alienation.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• An initial sense of shock over the revocation of Article 370 is giving way to alienation and anger.
  — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 22 Aug. 2019
• For him, the risk of constant documentation is alienation: a sense that our bodies are generating still moments rather than constant movement.
  — Nausicaa Renner, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Future star Cobham-Hervey is especially great, conveying the deep alienation of a young woman who’d rather have a gun in her face than not be noticed at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• Get our daily newsletter After the killings, people have blamed any number of causes—from mental illness and video games to the internet and the social alienation of young men.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• The dominant sentiment in Kashmir points towards a deeper alienation from New Delhi.
  — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 22 Aug. 2019
• Analysts say this has helped fuel militancy and a general sense of alienation, especially among young Kashmiris.
  — CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• Although the painting’s lone subject, a blonde woman clad in a red dress and black heels, looks directly at the viewer, her gaze seems to elude, reinforcing the sense of alienation endemic to the artist’s oeuvre.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2019
• Their work delves into the topics of black feminism, motherhood, the alienation of Native Americans, the culture of language, and many more issues.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Brian Ries, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024