Example sentences for: alienate

How can you use “alienate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We don't work closely together but, then again, I wouldn't want to hurt or alienate the only person in my office whom I really like.

  • The testimonials from these clean-cut, well-adjusted kids (to say nothing of the family resemblance) make a clear play for the soccer-mom vote--a segment that attack ads have been known to alienate.

  • Pundits debated whether his platform would: 1) differentiate him from Bush; or 2) alienate him from the Republican establishment.

  • A related article speculates that Hong Kong is safe from excessive Chinese meddling: China doesn't want to alienate Taiwan or the international community, and Tung Chee-hwa is making sound, relatively liberal decisions.

  • The fiction editor quit, claiming the editor in chief had been afraid that Leavitt's explicit gay sex scenes would alienate advertisers.


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