ALIENATED in a Sentence
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69 example sentences for ALIENATED, such as:
1. Her behavior alienated her friends.
2. But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
3. His bellicose disposition alienated his friends.
4. His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
5. During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
2. But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
3. His bellicose disposition alienated his friends.
4. His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
5. During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
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Meanings and Examples of ALIENATED
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alienated
a. caused to be unloved
a. socially disoriented
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.
2 And now she had alienated him from the sister he loved so dearly.
3 She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and fretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share than any one among so many could deserve.
4 Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more.
5 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.
6 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.
7 My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
8 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.
9 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.
10 Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov.
15 He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.
2 Her behavior alienated her friends.
3 His centrist, compromising instincts, embodied in the New Democrat covenant, alienated core constituencies while failing to impress opponents.
4 The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers.
5 Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture.
6 His bellicose disposition alienated his friends.
7 If you just implement this disaster then the blame becomes yours as well and the police will become alienated from the public.
8 It was an act of violence that she found alien and shocking.
9 Such an attitude is alien to most bu-sinessmen.
10 During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
11 The whole concept of responsibility was alien to him.
12 A referendum is alien to the party's concept of democracy.
13 The idea of keeping appointments was an alien concept.
14 But this concept is quite alien to Scripture.
15 His work offers an insight into an alien culture.