How to Use manifest destiny in a Sentence

manifest destiny

noun

• For his part, Foles has said the right things about not being set free to pursue his manifest destiny as a starter.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 28 May 2018
• Its blue skies are clouded by the specter of the next great territory of manifest destiny: the Internet.
  — Vogue, 2 Nov. 2017
• The frontier as a symbol not of manifest destiny but of man’s idiocy?
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• This was white supremacy and manifest destiny in action.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• All the believers in manifest destiny, and the white man’s burden, and a thousand conspiracy theories, going all the way back to Jamestown and Plymouth Colony.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• The way past manifest destiny and other colonial-era language can be simple: Be specific.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
• Men who arrived in California on the premise of discovery, self-realization, and manifest destiny tilled the arid soil on which his studio was built.
  — Hilary Hughes, Esquire, 16 May 2016
• Healing the Klamath means unspooling the bitter legacy of manifest destiny, and returning the river to a more natural state.
  — Jeremy Deaton, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2020
• Parts of Rita’s own manifest destiny are bound to rub certain people the wrong way, particularly some of Nicolò’s family.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2022
• Many of the paintings hint at religiosity and manifest destiny.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• Silver often uses the phrase manifest destiny to describe the likelihood of NBA expansion.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
• To manifest destiny’s proponents, to doubt the inevitability of technological and social progress via the railroad was tantamount to doubting the will of God.
  — Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2018
• To many Americans today, the type of manual household labor that Matchar describes seems like a relic of the early United States, of a time of homesteading, westward expansion, and manifest destiny.
  — Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• Silver has often said expansion is on the backburner but has also said expansion is manifest destiny.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• Like manifest destiny, small, independent breweries have spread across the U.S., becoming a coast-to-coast phenomenon.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
• Fox has long reinterpreted manifest destiny as a media product, treating the American mind as a vacant space upon which any dream, or any delusion, might be constructed.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 July 2021
• Benton, along with many others, used the notion of manifest destiny to systematically displace and kill scores of Native Americans.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
• So what have Democrats gotten in exchange for embracing this manifest destiny nationalism?
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
• The song turns a trip down a highway into a meditation on manifest destiny and its contemporary reverberations.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2021
• Buying into manifest destiny, genocide and assimilation which (viewed) the end of tribal cultures as necessary and inevitable.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea most commonly found in history books.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
• In the traditional telling, with its suggestion of manifest destiny, the encounters between Colonial settlers and the original inhabitants lead inexorably and inevitably to the vanquishing of Native Americans.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2022
• The far-from-triumphant results of manifest destiny have become ever more obvious: the displacement or extermination of Native populations, the devastation of ecosystems, the faltering of the industries that promised prosperity.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2021
• Though ultimately discredited following the atrocities endured during multiple years of Nazi reign, eugenic theory was steeped in this sinister view of genetic governance, manifest destiny run amok.
  — Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• At 88, Young had guided Alaska’s transformation from an Arctic kingdom colonized by prospectors and military commanders into a pluralistic, oil-juiced experiment in modern manifest destiny.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Strivers have taken inspiration from rugged frontier warriors who embodied American individualism, creativity and the quest for manifest destiny.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
• The natural environment with which Native Americans had established a harmonious and symbiotic relationship, was similarly despoiled by the twin logic of expropriation and colonization that spread under the logic of manifest destiny.
  — Nicholas Dirks, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024