How to Use anti-colonial in a Sentence

anti-colonial

adjective

• Both the song and the movie emphasize strong anti-colonial themes.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
• This anti-colonial approach reframes our existence on this planet as a debt to the future instead of an inheritance from the past.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• What about criticizing their anti-colonial vision on that score?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The first anti-colonial freedom fighter in Malawi, John Chilembwe, was a Baptist minister.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• But Robeson has been relegated to obscurity because of his pro-Black and anti-colonial views.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• Prigozhin has also pitched his services to Niger, hailing the recent military coup there as an anti-colonial triumph in an audio message posted on Telegram.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Next came history class — Rose’s favorite — and a lesson on 20th-century anti-colonial struggles.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• During anti-colonial revolts in the 19th century, many of the courtesans’ residences became hideout spots for Indian rebels.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 2 May 2024
• Moscow has capitalized on that anti-colonial movement to stretch its influence across the continent, fostering pro-Russia support in Niger.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• But Danielle Wood, a leading anti-colonial space intellectual, simply sees an African people seizing what’s entitled to them under space law through a commercial partnership.
  — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• Some Ukrainian left-wing intellectuals have argued that Ukraine, which is fighting an anti-colonial war against an occupying power, should see its reflection in Palestine, not Israel.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• Aside from characters just straight-up saying it sometimes, Knight’s anti-colonial interpretation of the material is mostly couched in a broader aesthetic of theatrical grit.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Fans labelled the orcas’ behavior as anti-colonial protest or anti-capitalist direct action, and pledged solidarity with the ocean’s saboteurs.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• But their politics ultimately feed a worldview that’s inclusive, anti-colonial, and conscious of the ways that sectarianism has been used to break working-class solidarity.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
• Basically, there is and was a nationalist project other than the anti-colonial one that began in 1925 with the foundation of the R.S.S., an organization which explicitly had a kind of Hindu majoritarianism at the center.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• Russia’s support during Africa’s anti-colonial struggles also bolstered political ties with some African nations.
  — Camille Behnke, NBC News, 29 July 2023
• But the underlying intellectual paradigm of construing all human interactions as racial, and all history as colonial or anti-colonial, will have to give way to some new fashion, probably no more correct but, one hopes, less pernicious.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• The anti-colonial battle against extractivism is continuously being renovated in more radical and aggressive forms of methods of resistance.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 29 May 2023
• For starters, Israeli officials tended to pay little attention to India’s ideological positions or anti-colonial commitments.
  — Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025