How to Use consumerism in a Sentence

consumerism

noun
  • That kind of consumerism can lead to better quality and lower costs throughout the healthcare market.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Bretzel and Citelli believe that death is as closely related to consumerism as life.
    Paula Erizanu, CNN, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Director Nathaniel Kahn took a deep dive into the high-end art world, where artistic passion and consumerism collide.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Here are all the signs and markers of placeless, globalized consumerism, and the metropolitan lifestyles that go along with it.
    Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • What follows is an all-too-plausible scenario of crass consumerism gone wild, economic collapse and terror when all the apparats stop working.
    F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Still others have analyzed Momo as a critique of consumerism and capitalism.
    Giulia Pines, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Platforms that prioritise these expectations are the ones best positioned to navigate this new age of conscious consumerism.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The commercial often appears before or during particularly graphic scenes in what could only have been a subtle dig at consumerism.
    Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Stacey: The pitch was to create a film about the environment and the consequences of consumerism for people who maybe never actually thought about it before.
    Esha Chhabra, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Here, Thomas took images ripped from magazines and newspapers and digitally removed their logos and slogans — any forms of consumerism — to let the images speak for themselves.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This generation’s unique relationship with technology, peer influence and social shopping is creating a new wave of consumerism that will shape the future.
    Casper Ravn-Sørensen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • His lawyers stressed that the work is a metaphor for consumerism.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The stunt, meant as a critique of empty consumerism, only added to the hype.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Sober bars are popping up all over the country in the face of health-conscious consumerism.
    Grace Connatser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Such as: Can consumerism be a form of social mind control?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • Sometimes, socialists present it as proof of the evils of consumerism.
    Nic Rowan, National Review, 29 May 2021
  • Others were less willing to forgo the fruits of 1960s consumerism.
    Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • To help you, follow these four rules for no-regrets consumerism.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the leading ’68ers took him as a model of aloofness from the corrupting tide of consumerism.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There was, no doubt, a critique of American consumerism somewhere in them, but that wasn’t the thrust of what they were meant to do.
    Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • This is at odds with the contemporary style of consumerism.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The post angered social media users in Korea, who blamed the trend on the fear of missing out on consumerism.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
  • This was the very secret to consumerism working in a savvy, self-conscious culture.
    Dana Spiotta, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Prime Day draws you in, not just to Amazon Prime membership but to a whole world of seamless consumerism.
    Russell Brandom, The Verge, 14 July 2019
  • Odell suggests a slowing down that has nothing to do with consumerism.
    Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Not the mass consumerism, or the festivities, or the lights, or the presents, but theology.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 2 Dec. 2021
  • If any of the hand-wringers really wanted to sever Christmas from consumerism, now would be the time.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • As in the novel, love and death, consumerism and chemicals, a sense of home and a sense of horror are woven throughout.
    Josh Zajdman, Town & Country, 30 Dec. 2022
  • A lot of your recent work is sort of dystopian, with a heavy dose of political satire and satire of consumerism.
    Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The rise of fast fashion (fueled by the rise of consumerism) has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste.
    refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2020

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