How to Use imperialism in a Sentence

imperialism

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  • British imperialism created the enormous British Empire.
  • America stood alone, untainted by imperialism, a beacon of hope to many who looked for a counterweight to colonialists rampaging across the globe.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • This terracotta army of random Americans will serve as an antidote to claims that this country was built on slave labor, genocide, and imperialism.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Dugdale began to concoct a series of increasingly wild assaults on British imperialism.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The charge of climate imperialism on the part of the IEA is not lightly made.
    — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • And there were all the wars and battles of wicked imperialism, too.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The sixth clock, the time ball in Cape Town, is mostly used to set up a discussion of the evils of slavery and imperialism.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The advance of European imperialism around the world marked the retreat of the slave trade and then of slavery itself.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The best thing that could happen to Russia is to quit imperialism.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
  • To expunge the virus of imperialism from the national body.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
  • In their youth, these men and women saved the world from Nazism and Japanese imperialism.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Her mother gets a crown, a reference to the British imperialism that triggered all that change.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor, one of the largest diamonds in the world, was one of many plunders of British imperialism.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
  • The free traders fearful of rising imperialism were so right.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For Nicaraguans, Darío serves as a reigning symbol of pride, as well as a voice of resistance to colonialism and imperialism across the hemisphere.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In fairness, at the time, Churchill’s support for British imperialism was very widely held among the masses and aristocrats alike.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
  • In the ethics of imperialism, final judgment is always deferred to the future.
    — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • In the decades since, the connections between dollars and imperialism have only grown tighter.
    — David Adler, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2020
  • At best the demonstrators will be cast as a nuisance; at worst, as tools of American imperialism.
    — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Corto Maltese is a stand-in for many smaller nations that found themselves in the crosshairs of modern imperialism.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The West’s show of resolve is a warning to other aggressive regimes—e.g., China—that imperialism won’t be cost-free.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • U.S. imperialism is the most ferocious enemy of the people of the entire world.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2017
  • In the light of this show’s recent obsession with imperialism, the pointy objects are missiles that have to hit small circular targets on a high beam.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For example, that European imperialism is in some way a special evil, the original sin of the white race.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
  • End the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The song’s video is a visceral gut punch that flashes scene after scene of the violence that the rest of the continent has suffered because of U.S. imperialism.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Short as the individual lyrics are, the howling bill of imperialism is almost unbearable to read more than a few items a time.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
  • If all of this sounds like a vaguely familiar set of ideas from a senior seminar on theories of imperialism, here’s some good and occasionally tiresome news: The Sympathizer is that exactly.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Usually this sprawl is considered in terms of political and economic imperialism.
    — Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024

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