Example sentences for: consumerism

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

  • The trick was to make the middle class's pervasive dissatisfaction with commercialism, cheap goods, and planned obsolescence into an instrument of consumerism itself.

  • This matters because the critique of consumerism that animates The Target Shoots First is often accompanied by a critique of Fast Company- , Tom Peters-style ideas about work that dismisses these ideas as covers for corporate power.

  • If consumers were unhappy with the gaudy, chrome-plated excess of '50s consumerism, if they resented the crude ministrations of Madison Avenue, then this was something that advertisers needed to know, and to act upon.

  • In fact, there is no dominant style to contemporary consumerism.

  • Bernbach and his colleagues had discovered, as Frank puts it, "the magic cultural formula by which the life of consumerism could be extended indefinitely, running forever on the discontent that it had itself produced."


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