ALIENABLE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for ALIENABLE, such as:
1. He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.
2. But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
3. His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
4. During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
5. The whole concept of responsibility was alien to him.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ALIENABLE
alien
 a.  dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
alienation
 n.  the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
 n.  separation resulting from hostility
alienated
 a.  caused to be unloved
 a.  socially disoriented
alienate
 v.  transfer property or ownership
 v.  make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of; but had every acre been alienable, it would have made no difference.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Scarlett could endure seeing her own possessions going out of the house in hateful alien hands but not this--not her little boy's pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  For three years the Federal government had been trying to impose alien ideas and an alien rule upon Georgia and, with an army to enforce its commands, it had largely succeeded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety, and the sound American customs had absorbed without one trace of pollution another alien invasion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
8  While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
9  She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
10  The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
11  And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
12  He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
13  Now this world disconcerted him no longer and was no longer alien to him, but he himself having entered it found in it a new enjoyment.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIX
14  Julie, with whom she had corresponded for the last five years, was in Moscow, but proved to be quite alien to her when they met.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II
15  The household was divided into two alien and hostile camps, who changed their habits for his sake and only met because he was there.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  It was an act of violence that she found alien and shocking.
2  Such an attitude is alien to most bu-sinessmen.
3  During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
4  The whole concept of responsibility was alien to him.
5  A referendum is alien to the party's concept of democracy.
6  The idea of keeping appointments was an alien concept.
7  But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
8  His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
9  You shouldn't expect immigrants to assimilate into an alien culture immediately.
10  He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.
11  He said they were opposed to the presence of alien forces in the region.
12  In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security.
13  If you think about it, that's totally alien to what a drug company might be expected to do, because if you eradicate a disease, there's no need for that drug at all.
14  In many science fiction films, alien invaders from outer space plan to destroy all terrestrial life.
15  The result of England's last great colonial struggle with France was to sever from the latter all her American dependencies, her colonists becoming the subjects of alien and rival powers.