How to Use alienation in a Sentence

alienation

noun

• That all comes out of alienation.
  — David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
• That’s a recipe for alienation.
  — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
• Angst, self-doubt and social alienation are present in lyrics.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 10 Jan. 2025
• My refuge from alienation came through stories.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Lum also describes her high school years as a time of alienation.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 July 2018
• Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
  — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
• This is not some kind of plea to examine the root causes of alienation.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2022
• Few songs in the past year have better captured the unease and alienation of this past year.
  — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• The subjects of his songs spanned everything from past flings to racial alienation.
  — David Burton, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
• But these will probably not overcome its sense of alienation.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• The mania over clutter seems like a symptom of a larger alienation.
  — Kyle Chayka, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
• This is timely in our current age, when isolation and alienation run deep.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• There is no single answer to workplace alienation.
  — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Promoting a finished project can produce a sense of alienation as well.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• The angst, the alienation, the sorrow, and, yes, the hopefulness that lies at the heart of many of these songs.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 12 Mar. 2026
• The long nights in a foreign city only expedite her alienation.
  — Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
• Tilton filed a suit against Beecher for alienation of affection.
  — John Strausbaugh, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• The reasons for white working-class alienation with the Democrats have shifted from decade to decade.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• All of this will contribute to extreme feelings of alienation.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2019
• Walford says the alienation of the vampire character seemed to mirror his own state of mind at the time.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• That reconfigured his alienation, so to speak.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Can people struggling with their own alienations look beyond themselves to the pain of others?
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• Why not stay the course and leave Penelope within the realm of ambiguous alienation?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
• In a world in which that kind of alienation is pervasive, Cash’s look is refreshing.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
• In a world in which that kind of alienation is pervasive, Cash’s look is refreshing.
  — Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
• Such alienation, along with a desire to be accepted, was a pain Karloff himself knew.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• Arnold put an ocean between himself and his family, but his alienation from his past has drained all the color from his life.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
• The result is a story of beauty and alienation, the narrative of an only child.
  — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024