Example sentences for: expansionism

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

  • For the moment, China and Russia are united by their unease about the United States, but Russia will quickly learn that it has more to fear from Chinese expansionism than from Western capitalism.

  • The targets of their liquidation were different; but the totalitarian structure, police state, and militaristic expansionism in both systems were uncannily alike.

  • His expansionism brought the bulk of Ionia under Lydian rule, but also resulted in conflict with the advancing Persians in the east, where he was roundly defeated.

  • In other shots, Indians with raised tomahawks and spears give rise to a nervous wall panel at the ICP assuring us that Levinthal is "mindful of real history," and that his work somehow "prompts the viewer's recollections of our forefathers' injustices: cultural expansionism, genocide and racism."

  • The metaphor would be better if left suggestive, if the strange new appetites were somehow the product of anxieties associated with American westward expansionism and "Manifest Destiny."


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