Example sentences for: alienation

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

  • Figgis shoots all this through windows to make the couple's alienation palpable.

  • The tensions give it a comic tingle, but that comedy is rooted in melancholy and alienation.

  • Late at night, Wade drinks and holds forth on his suspicions in a low rasp over the phone to his younger brother, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), a Boston academic who subtly feeds the flames of Wade's alienation.

  • The evangelical tone of Dixie-driven conservatism may also help account for the growing alienation from the GOP among voters in New England and the industrial Midwest.

  • She sympathizes with her captor, seeks the causes of his alienation, exhorts him to spiritual self-help.


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