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.
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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Meanings and Examples of ALIENATE
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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v. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated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.
2 We have only Mrs. Wilkes to help us and you do your best to alienate and insult her.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
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.
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.
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.
13 And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov.
14 He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.
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.
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.