How to Use nationalist in a Sentence

nationalist

1 of 2 noun

• Putin is also a strong nationalist.
  — Kerry Brown, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
• The schools were attacked by nationalists on social media and deleted their posts.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Take it up with Jesus, nationalists.
  — John Fugelsang september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
• The far-right nationalist held back from doing so and instead focused on attacks against da Silva.
  — Mauricio Savarese, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• For one, Pashtun nationalists will always have problems with a border that slices their heartland in two.
  — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
• But Hisahito’s birth quickly changed the tide and nationalists turned against the proposal.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
• Populists and nationalists have embraced the relativism conservatism used to push against on the left.
  — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
• The rise of unabashed Christian nationalists is their legacy.
  — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
• The battle is between nationalists and democrats, here as everywhere else today.
  — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
• However, the issue cannot be resolved by simply blaming those who lean toward the right or become nationalists.
  — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 13 May 2026
• The settler movement is a mix of nationalists, religious ideologues and those seeking new lives.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Right-wing nationalists, whose influence in Estonia has increased over the past decade, had opposed the change.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
• As peoples like the Maasai have lost confidence in the rhetoric, ethnic nationalists worldwide have come to embrace it.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• These nationalists are therefore surprised when Sikhs oppose their policies and vote against their candidates.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• And to him, as a great-power nationalist, that really means a world without a powerful Russia.
  — Tarik Cyril Amar, Time, 4 Mar. 2022
• As in previous years, the nationalist led a highly divisive campaign.
  — Suzan Fraser and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
• The founder of the Maratha empire who fought against the Mughal dynasty is now a symbol for nationalists remaking the country.
  — Neil MacFarquhar David E. Sanger Atul Loke Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• Schwörer noted that in Spain or Portugal, the right-wing nationalists might defend the right to hunt and hold a bullfight.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• Two of its most high-profile residents have been described as Christian nationalists in local media.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
• After the win, Macron acknowledged that many voters went for him only to keep out the nationalist, Le Pen.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
• Throughout the conflict, acts of violence were committed by all sides — nationalists, loyalists and state forces.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Each of the columns raced to the accusation that Johnson is a Christian nationalist.
  — Steele Brand, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
• To ensure that power is shared between unionists and nationalists, the system shuts down unless the largest parties on both sides agree to participate.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Ukrainian nationalists say the events were the result of an ongoing struggle between Poles and Ukrainians at the time.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Not all Christians, experts say, are Christian nationalists.
  — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
• Most people do not walk around identifying themselves as either patriots or nationalists.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• The nationalists and communists fell into an uneasy truce with the creation of the second united front in 1937.
  — Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
• By all means, this committee should aim to commemorate the freeing of slaves, Moore acknowledged, once the nationalists had taken over in earnest.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
• And many Christian nationalists, including in the United States, have gotten in line.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• Paul, however, is not the anti-immigrant hero Christian nationalists have waited for.
  — John Fugelsang september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025

nationalist

2 of 2 adjective

• The country's Nationalist Party won the election.
• There was no mention of Greene speaking at a white-nationalist event last year.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• That could provoke an outcry from nationalist circles, who would likely view such as move as a breach of sovereignty.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• But his media outlets often echoed his nationalist and anti-refugee views.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• The blast was the third to target a leading Russian nationalist figure in the last year.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• Or the creepy white-nationalist messaging of her public-affairs team.
  — Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• Nationalist and pro-Russian groups exploit these fears.
  — Veselin Toshkov, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
• Nick Fuentes, this white-nationalist livestreamer.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
• But in both countries, the Christian nationalist movement is trying to end that.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2025
• Many in his nationalist, anti-immigrant base would cheer him on, even if the end result is stronger cartels and less safety here at home.
  — Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
• Don’t be fooled by the replacement of progressive jargon with nationalist rhetoric.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
• Meloni, meanwhile, rose to power from Italy’s nationalist right.
  — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
• The nationalist army bore the brunt of conventional warfare.
  — Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
• Plast has tried to downplay its aggressively nationalist past.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
• The Russian nationalist philosopher, said to be close to the thinking of Vladimir Putin.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
• In the space of a few years, the 27-year-old has become one of the standard-bearers of the White nationalist movement.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
• In the United Kingdom, too, the scourge of animal abuse has been central to a nationalist project.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• And his editor claimed that the wording was a common nationalist construction.
  — Evgenia Peretz, Air Mail, 10 Jan. 2026
• At the same time, Orbán has positioned himself as a model for nationalist movements abroad.
  — Nick Spicer, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
• Even odder is that many of the composers did not necessarily feel compelled to explore nationalist themes.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
• Labour now competes for left-wing votes not only with the Greens but with nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
• The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2025
• At the same time, Meloni can present herself as both nationalist at home and indispensable to Europe.
  — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, France is but one election away from a nationalist victory that will hit Europe like an earthquake.
  — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
• But in fact, the invasion awakened nationalist sentiments in the country.
  — John B. Judis, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
• His nationalist, far-right, ultrareligious government also has a special needs agenda where a strong high court is a nuisance.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
• Such nationalist beliefs, of course, are also the reason why Europe had been mired in nearly endless conflict for centuries.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Volyn events are significant to a small but vocal minority of nationalist and far-right groups in Poland.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• For years, Kirk was dogged by the overtly racist followers of the young white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
• Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is known for his nationalist and anti-migrant views.
  — Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 16 May 2026