How to Use anti-American in a Sentence

anti-American

adjective
Definition of anti-Americannext
  • Bardin said the protests are anti-Israel and anti-American.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Even typing that out feels almost anti-American, anathema to the ethos of hard work and ambition that has propelled so many of the great minds and ideas that have changed the world.
    — Jason Schreier, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
  • That’s why the anti-American Cannes festival hailed him.
    — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2024
  • And all America is blessed, not just the anti-American Leftists that Democrats prefer.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The result has been both anti-Israeli and anti-American outrage across the Middle East.
    — Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The belief that the blast resulted from an Israeli airstrike led to a massive surge of anti-Israeli and anti-American protests across the Muslim world.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2023
  • For all of his talk about making America great, Trump has not condemned Orban for his anti-American rhetoric.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Walters is right that ceding ground to one anti-American power will strengthen the others.
    — Michael Lucchese, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
  • Those moves spawned anti-American militias, including groups that Jolani joined.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The program recalls the 1950s when the government dispatched a group of jazz musicians to perform around the world to counter the anti-American sentiments being broadcast by the Soviet Union.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Kelly and Cole’s meet-cute is based in so much defeatist, anti-American cynicism that the love story looks as maladroit as the parallel studio-moon slapstick.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024
  • The Turkish Youth Union is a national youth and student group that has an anti-American and anti-imperialist stance.
    — Kerem Inal, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The Sheik also dialed up his character’s anti-American rhetoric.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • That animosity has been at least partially shared by the public in China, where anti-American sentiments are on the rise.
    — Ashraf Khalil and Didi Tang, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The image of Chaplin the man had become virtually the inverse of the Tramp’s: oversexed, ungenerous, anti-American.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • What Nikki doesn't support is letting the Chinese and Iranians create anonymous accounts to spread chaos and anti-American filth among our people.
    — Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For another, the conflict in the Middle East provides Putin a unique opportunity to demonstrate his leadership in the anti-American camp.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Johnson began by explicating the threat posed by the emerging axis of anti-American great powers, rogue nations, and the stateless terrorists in orbit around them all.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 July 2024
  • But Russia will still egg the axis on, encouraging its anti-American designs and working to make its attacks more effective.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Sorry, not even the most anti-American soccer lover could chalk up that level o fskunking entirely to ineptitude by the U.S. and brilliance by their opponents.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Through the years, the group became increasingly inspired by anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments coursing through the Middle East.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Two Shawnee brothers set up the headquarters for a burgeoning anti-American movement in the unconquered territory along the Wabash River.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • This critical but unstable region could become far more chaotic and war-prone, with anti-American regimes becoming stronger and more entrenched.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
  • His predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, was far friendlier to China, with a penchant for anti-American rhetoric.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • There are acts of violence and rioting conducted by anti-American groups like Antifa.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
  • But back in Samarra, her fathers’ four brothers were kidnapped by anti-American Sunni insurgents.
    — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But the louder rhetoric of the past few years has been far more negative, with accusations of grooming and anti-American indoctrination regularly lobbed at them.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • South Africa’s ire toward Israel is rooted in its own history of violence and oppression as well as a growing anti-American sentiment.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But to chortle with a murderous, anti-American dictator over a former vice president . .
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Several officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was under an arms embargo at the time, to fund an insurgent group in Nicaragua that opposed the country’s anti-American regime.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2024

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