How to Use revanchist in a Sentence

revanchist

adjective

• As at its end, a European country — then Yugoslavia, now Ukraine — is being torn apart by a revanchist dictator.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
• Weiner puts us inside a revanchist Kremlin, angry at its lost empire and happy to make Americans pay for it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The possibility of a revanchist Nazi movement coming to power was not unthinkable at the time.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 June 2019
• Instead, Putin is on his own revanchist journey of restoring Russia’s empire.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• Each time around, B. has confidently predicted a GOP landslide, and each time, he’s been wrong, settling deeper into revanchist fury.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• The coup brought a revanchist evangelist right-wing to power in Bolivia, which repeatedly put off new elections for nearly a year, when Morales’ party won the presidency.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
• Instead of being forced to reckon with the ashes of empire, a revanchist dictator has throttled Russia’s politics, and turned his sights on now carving his neighbors.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• The opposition figure’s few comments on the Ukrainian region came in the swirl surrounding Russia’s initial 2014 invasion, when Putin first launched his revanchist project in Ukraine.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
• The revanchist culture war Donald Trump has declared on liberals, the mainstream media, and most members of Congress in his own party may only be beginning.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 24 Aug. 2017
• Thousands of miles away, officials from another country facing up to a revanchist neighbor are taking notes.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Three decades later, Ukrainians still continue to fight for independence from a revanchist Moscow.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Putting a significant part of your energy-supply system in the hands of an aggressive, revanchist state like Russia is to offer a potent geopolitical lever.
  — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• His political failures helped usher in a revanchist, right-wing surge that still saturates Russia, and that threatens nuclear warfare once more.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• That commitment has been welcomed by allied nations, which want Germany to rearm and help counter a revanchist Russia — a stunning historical reversal.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• It’s startling the way the word ‘‘Breitbart’’ has become iconographic, referring not really to the website or the company but to an amorphous mass of revanchist opinions for which Breitbart receives credit or blame.
  — Wil S. Hylton, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• As for French cinema, Daney writes incisively about the revanchist politics of nineteen-seventies France and the resulting decadence of French cinema.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• Since the August day 31 years ago when a group of leaders in the nearby parliament shocked the nation by declaring independence from the collapsing Soviet Union, the country has periodically fought to keep itself apart from a revanchist Russia.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• Preoccupations like these have fuelled a revanchist current in education, which has taken many forms.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• Yes, some of the truly revanchist ideas that pervaded in football have faded, but chalking these developments up entirely to enlightenment is a comforting delusion.
  — Robert Silverman, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
• Faced with the prospect of this revelation, some recoil, taking solace in revanchist notions of separation, nationalism, and self-reliance laced with magical thinking.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• While never producing evidence for his claim, Putin cited his need to defend them — underpinned by his revanchist view that much of Ukraine exists on territory that is historically Russia’s.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• Of particular interest to Beijing will be how quickly and decisively European powers have moved to sever economic ties to a revanchist Russia.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2022
• And its clientele in this revanchist effort includes oil companies fearing clean-energy cars and also an auto industry that now sees an opportunity to batten on low oil prices and the consequent consumer lust for gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Apr. 2018
• But many Europeans are no longer interested in being sensitive to a figure like Putin or tolerating his revanchist resentments and neo-imperial ambitions.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• Russia, meanwhile, replaced Soviet rule with a revanchist autocracy.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019