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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Because families are paying a lot more, 40 percent in most places more, for household electricity, 50 percent more at the pump, because of Joe Biden's anti-American energy policies.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Joining China and Russia in an emerging axis of anti-American autocracies is Iran.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • In the subsequent weeks, as further, more specific details of the video spilled into the public consciousness, the media began to swirl into a mad frenzy of its own, with many commentators accusing Madonna of being anti-American.
    — Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Mind you, Hunter Biden dodged his taxes after raking in millions of dollars trading on his father’s political influence in shady business deals with operatives of corrupt and anti-American regimes.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2023
  • That regime was defined by stark anti-American imperialism and anti-Israeli Zionism.
    — Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2023
  • His unique brand of Islamic populism won him support from a young population in a country where anti-American sentiment and anti-establishment feelings are common.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • Nearly complete results showed that Robert Fico, a populist former prime minister whose campaign has been laced with pro-Russian and anti-American discourse, defeated his progressive rival.
    — Nick Parker, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Iran has also built an extensive online disinformation apparatus that is used to both amplify content promoting its anti-American and anti-Israel worldview and aggravate political and social tensions in democratic societies.
    — Jason M. Brodsky, TIME, 30 July 2024

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