How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun
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  • Black users have taken to the site to call out racial discrimination in the workplace and share their stories of alienation on the job.
    — Ashanti M. Martin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Grief, alienation, loneliness and anger seem everywhere.
    — Ted Anthony, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The most recognisable consequence of this alienation is imposter syndrome.
    — Elisabeth Fapuro, refinery29.com, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Since then, the social and economic alienation of French Muslims has only deepened.
    — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • That would only accelerate the trends of uniformity, statism, and alienation, frustrating our long-range aims.
    — Andy Smarick, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • While Trump was clearly more pro-Putin than Clinton, the goal was less a Trump win as much as sowing distrust and alienation.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Lockdown, as seen in her film, is characterized not by alienation, but by close, even mystical alignment with the body in its many folding, extending, stretching forms.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2020
  • Yet, as Giovanna soon realizes, the lies designed by their literary culture are too reductive to give meaning to her quest to understand her sudden alienation from her life.
    — Merve Emre, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Empty consumerism and soulless government are the traditional two explanations for our modern alienation.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • That generation spent much of the past four years being sent off course by Trump and Bernie Sanders, and the deeper alienation in the country that those politicians represented.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Grant and Martha expertly dispel that feeling of alienation with good humor and meticulously researched facts about the regional distribution of words.
    — Mara Katz, Ars Technica, 31 May 2020
  • Few songs in the past year have better captured the unease and alienation of this past year.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This is not some kind of plea to examine the root causes of alienation.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2022
  • The reasons for white working-class alienation with the Democrats have shifted from decade to decade.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024
  • Walford says the alienation of the vampire character seemed to mirror his own state of mind at the time.
    — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
  • At what point does solitude become a form of alienation?
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
    — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The drafting of a think piece on the rainbow-washing of Pride and its alienation from its activist origins.
    — Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
  • These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And every move that's happened since the Raiders' 2020 kickoff in Las Vegas has smacked of fan alienation.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Only one person takes up his cause: a teenager with her own sense of alienation.
    — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
  • There is good cause to think that Youngkin’s victory, too, had more to do with the passions of the base than the alienation of suburban parents.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The result is a story of beauty and alienation, the narrative of an only child.
    — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Her disco hauteur, her hair of Ziggy-est red, the filter of alienation on her beauty, and the seam of coldness in her voice.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Such alienation, along with a desire to be accepted, was a pain Karloff himself knew.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • How much did that alienation of conscious rap play into you not releasing a project since 2009?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
  • Djuna Barnes’s short stories return again and again to characters suffering from love, fear, and alienation.
    — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The idea is usually attributed to the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, who observed a growing contradiction and alienation in Beethoven’s later work.
    — Sheon Han, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024

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