Example sentences for: xenophobic

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

  • 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.)

  • 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 party's leader, Jörg Haider, who has praised Hitler and described former SS soldiers as "decent men of character," won a share of the vote almost double that ever achieved by the xenophobic French party of Jean-Marie Le Pen, he said.

  • I would rather not sound like a member of the PC police, but Jeffrey Goldberg talking about his opposition to Jews marrying gentiles in "My Nanny Problem" strikes me as almost racist, and definitely xenophobic.

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


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