How to Use alienated in a Sentence

alienated

adjective

• An alienated cop, a stressed and scared cop, can be a more dangerous cop.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 8 Apr. 2018
• We are alienated from the earth, from our hands, and from one another.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The alienated young man Tweedy once was has rarely seemed further away.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
• Each of the coalitions also has a group that is alienated from its party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• That alienated adults and as each episode went by it descended even more into farce.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Here was a band led by a couple, with a strange, alienated man-child at the microphone.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• Varney said when asked if some centrists might feel alienated by Bernie.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2020
• Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• On the flipside, there are those who enjoy taking the bus but feel alienated for doing so.
  — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 5 Nov. 2018
• Along with the protests came pleas from students to take care of one another and to reach out to those who may feel alienated.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• By the end, he's alienated (sorry) his wife and children, among others.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
• Yet even some of them (or their alienated children in future years) may well end up betraying us.
  — Mark Krikorian, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
• The second season found the group more alienated from each other than ever.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Crump grew up alienated in the home of a relative, Erwin wrote.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• At school, Cáit is even more alienated, ignored by the other children.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• Generally, the best art comes from people that are a bit alienated from the system.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• These are the kids who end up disenfranchised, marginalized and alienated.
  — Ross Greene, Time, 16 Feb. 2018
• Her parents didn’t teach her Tagalog for fear of her becoming alienated from her peers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• True to the heart love the grandmothers, grandfathers and all the other alienated folks.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2021
• Even before the pandemic, Kailani, then in ninth grade, had begun to feel alienated at her school.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Many of these patients suffer from a loss of identity and sense of helplessness and feel alienated from the world.
  — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Too many people are spending those years anxious, angry, alienated.
  — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
• Anyone who has felt alienated at work and feared for their job can relate to Nella, regardless of race.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
• Bear’s music is, in part, the product of a lifetime of feeling alienated by strict ideas about identity.
  — Gaby Wilson, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
• Some of these technocrats and marginalized insiders feel alienated but are too afraid to act because of what may await them the day after.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
• Cooke and Blackwell, who by then had become alienated from their boss, proposed a deal that would allow the two to strike out on their own.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• While the goal of the app is to put everything in one place, some users may feel alienated by a confusing or cluttered interface.
  — Kristen Schiele, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
• But the young Wiley also felt somewhat alienated from the works, which didn’t feature Black or brown faces like his.
  — Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• With his short Afro and deep, resonant voice, Glenn-Copeland felt alienated from the students around him.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• The consequence of picking one side is that the other side’s consumers are alienated and may boycott the company.
  — Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021