How to Use nationalism in a Sentence

nationalism

noun
  • The war was caused by nationalism and greed.
  • Nazism's almost epic nationalism appealed to downtrodden Germans still suffering the humiliation of being defeated in World War I.
  • There’s a lot of people who don’t like the idea of nationalism.
    Jeff Caplan, star-telegram, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Breen sees that day as the point when those beliefs were aired out in the open, often cloaked as nationalism.
    oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Chinese nationalism lies at the heart of this question.
    David Shambaugh, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • The film plays as a dire warning against the racist nationalism that has been rising in the West in recent years.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This the age of pandemics and the rise of autocrats and nationalism and provincialism.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The hunt for a vaccine, has been caught up in a tide of nationalism that was already sweeping the world before the virus hit.
    Adela Suliman, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2020
  • And in this way, white nationalism isn’t much like cancer at all.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • In the last few years, Christian nationalism has sprung up all around us.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Both men spoke of the rise of nationalism and fascism across Europe.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • This is the system that has lasted ever since and has been challenged in these days of trade wars and nationalism.
    CBS News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But the angry aesthetic of this brand of nationalism can be off-putting.
    Sophie Pinkham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Trumpism has an essence, and that essence is nationalism.
    Christopher Demuth, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Now there's so much more nationalism and everybody's trying to get a piece of the moon.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 May 2020
  • How does the apparent increase in white nationalism fit in?
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 4 June 2020
  • Teams are hateful nationalism and joyful singing in a choir.
    Thomas Gebremedhin, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Vaccine nationalism has been the rule, not the exception.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The new fear and distrust in Lod has old roots in dueling nationalism.
    New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • The Proud Boys is a male chauvinist group with ties to white nationalism.
    Author: Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2021
  • What is the difference between some and most white nationalism?
    Oliver-James Campbell, Wired, 20 June 2021
  • Tribe and race over country is the core of white nationalism, and racists can embrace Lee in good conscience.
    Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 4 June 2017
  • While some have posted in support of a white ethno-state, white nationalism is not a core tenet.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • The rise of populist nationalism has turned many countries inward.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But most of the chatter about economic nationalism wound up being just that.
    Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Vladimir Putin lost his mind in the ethers of Great Russia nationalism.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • And like other Cup teams, the players have wrapped themselves in the flag of ardent nationalism.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • This is why a strange brand of apocalyptic nationalism is so widely in vogue.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Which way Modi’s form of nationalism will lean remains to be seen.
    Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Christian nationalism has no place in our borders, as a state or country.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022

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