Example sentences for: xenophobia

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

  • So if you go to a concert today, you’ll sense the drama of recovery from mad xenophobia.

  • Corriere della Sera of Milan, in a front-page editorial, compared favorably the German government's well-prepared and well-argued proposal (although rejected by the voters of Hesse) to grant German citizenship to more than half its 7 million resident foreigners with the Italian government's sudden immigration decree which, it said, could generate xenophobia and racism.

  • All told, the obstacles to intergroup harmony posed by human nature are big enough that there is little exaggeration in saying that xenophobia is a part of human nature, at least in this sense: Uncritical hostility toward an identifiable group of people--identifiable by language, dress, color, whatever--is an inherent capacity, activated under certain predictable circumstances.

  • Metric supporters also see xenophobia in Americans' distaste for a foreign system of measurement.

  • And it should remind us all that flimsy notions of the minority's eternally dual identity, whether tinged with xenophobia or candied with race pride, in the end amount to just so much double talk.


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