How to Use socialist in a Sentence

socialist

noun

• Also, how does a Vermont socialist come to play a role in all this?
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2021
• For the first time six decades, a socialist is poised to become mayor of a major U.S. city.
  — Rick Klein, Alisa Wiersema, ABC News, 24 June 2021
• Many Democrats have begun to ask socialists for their support and adopt some of the D.S.A.’s platform on health care and pay.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• His father was a socialist who had been jailed and tortured by Pinochet’s regime.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Bernie Sanders is a socialist who wants to give everything away for free.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• In New York, a 28-year-old socialist shocked the country (and the Democratic Party).
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2018
• The socialists, the collectivists — of all hues — never rest.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
• The registered nurse may soon become the mayor of Buffalo, and the first socialist to run a large city.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• There were never a lot of socialists or communists in the U.S., but there were more in the ’30s than ever before or since.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Sep. 2019
• The 78-year-old democratic socialist is now the front-runner.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
• For anyone to the right of the EPP, breaking up its coalition with the socialists, pro-business liberals and the greens should be the main issue at stake.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024
• The socialists still found favor with too many constituents.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017
• With the loud voices of these radical socialists, what must one suppose the platform of the party will be?
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• But others see Petro as a socialist who will bring only bad things to Colombia.
  — Christina Austin, Fortune, 24 May 2018
• The question now is how long the governing coalition that includes not only the socialists, but the armed forces can hold, Shifter said.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 30 July 2024
• There was a clutch of beery socialists with gray ponytails, alongside retirees with canes.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
• Joe Biden is about as far from a socialist as anyone in the Democratic Party.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
• The Bay View socialist posted a fundraising link for his campaign.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2021
• As the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the democratic socialist is now pulling the levers in the control room.
  — Maureen Dowd New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 July 2021
• Is the future of the Democratic Party a 28-year-old socialist who used to tend bar in Manhattan?
  — latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• But there was a time in Milwaukee's history when socialists ruled the city.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
• In practice, the new law was used to suppress socialists and labor unions, as if the Kaiser were behind every demand for fair wages.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Five years ago, oil was trading at over $100 a barrel, which gave the ruling socialists leeway.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2018
• Though no longer a socialist, Dostoyevsky could never shake his faith in the collective.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The American left, the true socialists, who are mostly aligned with Sanders, are growing in numbers.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 18 June 2019
• These voters in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, etc. didn’t become socialists in the last two years.
  — Jane Coaston, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
• You were endorsed by a group, the democratic socialists.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• Walton, a democratic socialist, is vying to be the leader of the second-largest city in New York, and the election was nearing.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• Raised by Russian immigrants in Brooklyn, William was a fierce socialist from a young age.
  — Adam Gaffney, New Republic, 25 May 2017
• An authoritarian socialist, Maduro has been in power since 2013, and many blame him for the oil-rich country’s economic collapse and the exodus of millions of citizens, including hundreds of thousands who have fled to the United States.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024