ALIENATE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for ALIENATE, such as:
1. Don't alienate yourself from the masses.
2. He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.
3. But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
4. His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
5. The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ALIENATE
alienate
 v.  transfer property or ownership
 v.  make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  So, she was intensely annoyed when he dropped his masquerade and set out apparently upon a deliberate campaign to alienate Atlanta's good will.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  We have only Mrs. Wilkes to help us and you do your best to alienate and insult her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Such opportunities as I have been enabled to alienate from my domestic duties, I have devoted to corresponding at some length with my family.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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.
10  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.
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Don't alienate yourself from the masses.
2  The govern-ment cannot afford to alienate either group.
3  The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
4  The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.
5  We could not see what should again alienate us from one another, or how one brother could again oppress another.
6  It was an act of violence that she found alien and shocking.
7  Such an attitude is alien to most bu-sinessmen.
8  During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
9  The whole concept of responsibility was alien to him.
10  A referendum is alien to the party's concept of democracy.
11  The idea of keeping appointments was an alien concept.
12  But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
13  His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
14  You shouldn't expect immigrants to assimilate into an alien culture immediately.
15  He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.