ALIENATED in a Sentence

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1. Don't alienate yourself from the masses.
2. He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.
3. The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.
4. The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
5. And now she had alienated him from the sister he loved so dearly.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALIENATED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alienated
 a.  isolated; excluded; estranged; having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
2  And now she had alienated him from the sister he loved so dearly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and fretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share than any one among so many could deserve.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII
5  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  Scarlett could endure seeing her own possessions going out of the house in hateful alien hands but not this--not her little boy's pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  For three years the Federal government had been trying to impose alien ideas and an alien rule upon Georgia and, with an army to enforce its commands, it had largely succeeded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety, and the sound American customs had absorbed without one trace of pollution another alien invasion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
11  While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
12  She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
13  The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
14  And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
15  He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  You shouldn't expect immigrants to assimilate into an alien culture immediately.
17  He quickly adjusts to the alien environment.
18  He said they were opposed to the presence of alien forces in the region.
19  In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security.
20  If you think about it, that's totally alien to what a drug company might be expected to do, because if you eradicate a disease, there's no need for that drug at all.
21  In many science fiction films, alien invaders from outer space plan to destroy all terrestrial life.
22  The result of England's last great colonial struggle with France was to sever from the latter all her American dependencies, her colonists becoming the subjects of alien and rival powers.
23  This girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.
24  Perhaps alien worlds could be seeded deliberately with terrestrial micro-organisms that might take hold there, jump-starting evolution on those planets.
25  One of the principal reasons for this fragility is the deep sense of alienation and frustration felt by many Aboriginal Canadians.
26  Mental illness can create a sense of alienation from the real world.
27  Don't alienate yourself from the masses.
28  The govern-ment cannot afford to alienate either group.
29  The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
30  The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.