How to Use separatism in a Sentence

separatism

noun

• He was charged with separatism and sentenced to life in prison.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
• He is being held on charges such as the incitement of separatism.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• Fast-forward three decades, and separatism is largely in retreat.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• But under the strain of slump and separatism, the old two-party system has splintered.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Some had hired thugs to defend their rule and flirted with separatism when a new government came to power.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• But Catalan separatism hasn’t gone away, as the December elections prove.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 30 Jan. 2018
• But Adekoya acknowledges that Buhari faces an uphill battle on the issue of separatism.
  — Stephanie Busari and Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• The central struggle in this show will be how to forge peaceful alliances across cultures and species, despite militant separatism.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2017
• Some even see Pakistan’s move as a direct strategy to revive Sikh separatism.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
• In a time of separatism and xenophobia, what higher purpose could there be than cultural connection?
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Lance Taylor was enamored with the separatism of the Black Panthers.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• The central government in Beijing may succeed in quashing Uighur separatism in the short term.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2019
• There’s also religious separatism, as in the New Kingdom of Utah.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• He was formally arrested in 2014 and sentenced to life in prison for separatism later that year.
  — Jewher Ilham For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 18 Apr. 2022
• Uighur writer, blogger and scholar Ilham Tohti is serving a life sentence on charges of separatism.
  — Katherine Love, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• The stance aligns with China’s own sensitivities over sovereignty and separatism.
  — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• If the Justices abdicate on the race issue now, the virus of racial separatism will spread ever more deeply into American life.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• For him, quarantine equals chaos equals political separatism equals the end of the Ottoman Empire.
  — Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Their son Ben, one of the four pastors—two men, two women—who succeeded them, described the church’s strategy as invasive separatism.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Their son Ben, one of the four pastors—two men, two women—who succeeded them, described the church’s strategy as invasive separatism.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• But Ireland avoided both fascism and the second world war, so its party names still echo the fervour of early-20th-century separatism.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2020
• Were there a lot more people living in the Pelican State that believed in white privilege, in racial separatism by region, by nation?
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• In the moment, Hale had heard sentiments like this as disturbing, of a piece with the community’s self-satisfied separatism.
  — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
• The movement brings back painful memories for many residents, because separatism has a long and bloody history in Basque Country.
  — Meg Bernhard, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
• The author is too ready to blame Basque terror and Catalan separatism on the clumsiness of Madrid, rather than on their practitioners.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Trump’s election let middle-class racists like Sheehan—men who nurture fantasies of ethnic separatism but aren’t going to tattoo swastikas on their faces or don white hoods—come out of the closet.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
• Opinion polls indicate that separatism in Alberta lacks broad appeal, however.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 22 May 2026
• The Black Hammer group was known for activism for Black separatism, including seeking the return of all indigenous land to non-white people.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Not only is there separatism in Catalonia but two parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, have emerged to challenge the old duopoly.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 2 June 2018
• Finding common ground In the 20th century, Black and white nationalists were able to find common ground on the topic of racial separatism.
  — George Michael, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025