How to Use alienated in a Sentence

alienated

adjective
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  • The GOP has grown more and more alienated from younger voters.
    — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Maybe the challenges of sending children back to class alienated mothers at the start of the school year.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • We are alienated from the earth, from our hands, and from one another.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • Kailani, for one, had begun to feel alienated at her school.
    — Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Each of the coalitions also has a group that is alienated from its party.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • When Major League Baseball returned from the players strike in 1995, teams looked for ways to get back in the good graces of alienated fans.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • But the young Wiley also felt somewhat alienated from the works, which didn’t feature Black or brown faces like his.
    — Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Cooke and Blackwell, who by then had become alienated from their boss, proposed a deal that would allow the two to strike out on their own.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Even before the pandemic, Kailani, then in ninth grade, had begun to feel alienated at her school.
    — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Many of these patients suffer from a loss of identity and sense of helplessness and feel alienated from the world.
    — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At school, Cáit is even more alienated, ignored by the other children.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The second season found the group more alienated from each other than ever.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Generally, the best art comes from people that are a bit alienated from the system.
    — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But the brand alienated customers and fast-fashion stores like H&M emerged to win them over during and after the 2008 recession.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The woman came from a large and deeply religious family and became alienated from the Catholic Church.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Yet even some of them (or their alienated children in future years) may well end up betraying us.
    — Mark Krikorian, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Anyone who has felt alienated at work and feared for their job can relate to Nella, regardless of race.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
  • While the goal of the app is to put everything in one place, some users may feel alienated by a confusing or cluttered interface.
    — Kristen Schiele, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Bear’s music is, in part, the product of a lifetime of feeling alienated by strict ideas about identity.
    — Gaby Wilson, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And the closest thing to an anti-Trump group in the party — the Moderate Establishment — has become alienated from the rest of the party.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The consequence of picking one side is that the other side’s consumers are alienated and may boycott the company.
    — Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Black students are already alienated from the school system.
    — Sidney Fussell, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
  • And also probably felt alienated and felt old, to be honest.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 6 June 2023
  • But she’s steadily grown alienated from the party and has been a barrier to some of Democrats’ top priorities.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The series of releases that followed alienated some die-hard fans, but time has proven most of them to be among the gems of these respective bands’ catalogs.
    — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe Leland, the show’s villain, could pose online as a child, in a plot to bond with Kristen’s most alienated daughter—only to have the four sisters trick him instead.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • In the process, the Rajapaksa regime became increasingly alienated from India and the West.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Not only that, this detritus returned to us with an alienated majesty.
    — Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Plenty of would-be clients go once and, feeling alienated, never return.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022

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