How to Use alienate in a Sentence

alienate

verb
Definition of alienatenext
Synonyms for alienatenext
  • The beer brand ended up alienating all parties in the process.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • From the start of her career, Sweet embraced a brand of politics that aimed to alienate no one.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the last thing any leader wants to do is alienate those who hold the power of rescue in this make-or-break moment.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This is not a show afraid to alienate its audience or push past their comfort zone.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
    — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There’s no way to grow by a factor of five, of course, without alienating some loyal diehards.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Any new path brings some members on board but alienates others.
    — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Likely not finding its way to that resume: alienating most of the teachers in the building.
    — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • The kiss appeared to give in to these fan demands while alienating a different part of the fandom who felt the kiss didn’t make any sense.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • China, the world’s second largest economy, may be too big to alienate now.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The ending to this story doesn’t have to feel so inevitable, like this slow, alienating death march toward ...
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The history is harsh but Williams foregrounds a structure that doesn’t alienate.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In adding these features to new grills, though, the company wants to be careful not to alienate current loyal users.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But Koy quickly squandered that win, alienating the pop star with a cheap shot about her presence at NFL games.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • So that was not good; that started to feel alienating and isolating.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The youngest recruits to businesses may well not want to drink at all, thus alienating them from older managers who like to kick back with a tipple.
    — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • This question was meant to humiliate Morty and alienate him from his mother.
    — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Another year of Fox would risk alienating the fan base long-term — if that hasn’t already happened.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Florida contingent knows better than to alienate him just yet.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Studios are, as a rule, cautious about ideas and elements in movies that could alienate audiences.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Off-Broadway, too, men with obnoxiously alienating traits are front and center, in old work and new.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Hanging over the debate has been the concern among some Republicans that even a ban that might pass legal muster would alienate voters.
    — Brittany Shammas, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Rachel Roubein and Caroline Kitchener, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • However, this new lawsuit has surprised and alienated some of the influencers who work with SoFi.
    — Delyanne Barros, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And so that was a fun way to inundate audiences without alienating them.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
  • If keeping up with Weiner on a bicycle is a challenge, so is reading about the myriad ways moms can alienate their girls.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Like Bud Light before it, Target ended up alienating just about everyone in the process with its response.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 25 May 2023
  • The company has good reason not to alienate Mr. Weisselberg.
    — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • For many this could be an alienating experience—but at last, there’s someone who can understand what the founder is going through.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Those players are on big money contracts which alienates the majority of the European market to come in for them.
    — Liam Canning, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

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