Example sentences for: xenophobic

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

  • The paper said, "The real fear of the protestors is not that the trade talks will fail but that they will succeed, for protectionism is a powerful force behind which shelter not only state monopolies, inefficient industries and cossetted farmers but backward-looking and xenophobic ideologies."

  • Another is that all but the most xenophobic Americans recognize that Africa is so economically desperate that it can't afford to sacrifice anything.

  • The depiction of Chinese life is said to be so grim that it "verges on the xenophobic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the Red Corner site.)

  • In other respects, too, they evince a "prickly xenophobic nationalism."

  • Those offending areas are now populated by happy natives thriving in their xeroscapes in xenophobic splendor.


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