How to Use imperialism in a Sentence

imperialism

noun

• British imperialism created the enormous British Empire.
• The charge of climate imperialism on the part of the IEA is not lightly made.
  — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• And there were all the wars and battles of wicked imperialism, too.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• The sixth clock, the time ball in Cape Town, is mostly used to set up a discussion of the evils of slavery and imperialism.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• The advance of European imperialism around the world marked the retreat of the slave trade and then of slavery itself.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• The best thing that could happen to Russia is to quit imperialism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
• To expunge the virus of imperialism from the national body.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
• In their youth, these men and women saved the world from Nazism and Japanese imperialism.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• Afghanistan is a part of the Third World and accordingly, its sins are placed in the Western ledger due to imperialism and colonialism.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• Her mother gets a crown, a reference to the British imperialism that triggered all that change.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Oct. 2019
• Worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor, one of the largest diamonds in the world, was one of many plunders of British imperialism.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• The free traders fearful of rising imperialism were so right.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• For Nicaraguans, Darío serves as a reigning symbol of pride, as well as a voice of resistance to colonialism and imperialism across the hemisphere.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• In fairness, at the time, Churchill’s support for British imperialism was very widely held among the masses and aristocrats alike.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
• In the ethics of imperialism, final judgment is always deferred to the future.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• In the decades since, the connections between dollars and imperialism have only grown tighter.
  — David Adler, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2020
• At best the demonstrators will be cast as a nuisance; at worst, as tools of American imperialism.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Corto Maltese is a stand-in for many smaller nations that found themselves in the crosshairs of modern imperialism.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The West’s show of resolve is a warning to other aggressive regimes—e.g., China—that imperialism won’t be cost-free.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• U.S. imperialism is the most ferocious enemy of the people of the entire world.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2017
• In the light of this show’s recent obsession with imperialism, the pointy objects are missiles that have to hit small circular targets on a high beam.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• For example, that European imperialism is in some way a special evil, the original sin of the white race.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
• End the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
• The song’s video is a visceral gut punch that flashes scene after scene of the violence that the rest of the continent has suffered because of U.S. imperialism.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2022
• Short as the individual lyrics are, the howling bill of imperialism is almost unbearable to read more than a few items a time.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
• Seeing the great struggle of the 20th century as imperialism’s death throes.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• The Western mission to save Africa by stopping the birth of African children or by killing them in the womb must be considered a form of paternalism or imperialism.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 14 July 2017
• In Lucas’s space opera, Western and sci-fi genre codes were mixed to explore our despair over Vietnam-era American imperialism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2024
• Now, Snyder faces Lucas’s dilemma — the liberal impulse to challenge patriarchy and critique the failings of imperialism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024