How to Use imperialism in a Sentence

imperialism

noun

• British imperialism created the enormous British Empire.
• And there were all the wars and battles of wicked imperialism, too.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• To expunge the virus of imperialism from the national body.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
• The charge of climate imperialism on the part of the IEA is not lightly made.
  — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• The best thing that could happen to Russia is to quit imperialism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
• The advance of European imperialism around the world marked the retreat of the slave trade and then of slavery itself.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• End the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
• In the ethics of imperialism, final judgment is always deferred to the future.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• In the decades since, the connections between dollars and imperialism have only grown tighter.
  — David Adler, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2020
• Her mother gets a crown, a reference to the British imperialism that triggered all that change.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Oct. 2019
• The sixth clock, the time ball in Cape Town, is mostly used to set up a discussion of the evils of slavery and imperialism.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• All of this, even before the twin forces of industrialization and imperialism got to work.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• In their youth, these men and women saved the world from Nazism and Japanese imperialism.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• Short as the individual lyrics are, the howling bill of imperialism is almost unbearable to read more than a few items a time.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
• There is no agent of ecological imperialism more ferocious than the wild pig.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 19 July 2021
• U.S. imperialism is the most ferocious enemy of the people of the entire world.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2017
• The foot soldiers of enviro-imperialism are confident in the righteousness of their cause.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 July 2021
• But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• Miyazaki exposed their place as a cog in the machine of American imperialism.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Corto Maltese is a stand-in for many smaller nations that found themselves in the crosshairs of modern imperialism.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
• In the light of this show’s recent obsession with imperialism, the pointy objects are missiles that have to hit small circular targets on a high beam.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• For those on the left, democracy is the pretty lie that hides the brutality of capitalism and imperialism.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• At best the demonstrators will be cast as a nuisance; at worst, as tools of American imperialism.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• That also turns into its own battle over sovereignty and imperialism.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• Historical figures on the softer side of imperialism have been placed on notice, too.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 2 July 2020
• For example, that European imperialism is in some way a special evil, the original sin of the white race.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
• Those men died beholden to a fantasy of British imperialism, sleepers all sharing the same dream.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
• That includes the slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism.
  — Cephas Williams, Fortune, 17 June 2020
• Rhodes was a politician and businessman who was a firm believer and supporter of British imperialism.
  — Tawanda Karombo, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
• Or from Western imperialism that tells us Yellow is dirty.
  — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024