How to Use xenophobia in a Sentence

xenophobia

noun

• But for all of its tech prowess, the country has light years to go on race and xenophobia.
  — Jennifer Neal, The Root, 20 Dec. 2017
• The xenophobia that has followed the attack hasn’t changed my view.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 29 June 2016
• But the panic, both in that case and in this one, arguably has a tinge of xenophobia as well.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Chin said there are a number of concrete steps schools can take to stop xenophobia from spreading.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• What that does is create a rhetoric of fear, division and xenophobia.
  — Joseph Pimentel, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
• Some felt his comments to police were proof of his alleged xenophobia, emails showed.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• This rhetoric has stoked xenophobia and led to a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes across the country.
  — John Wang, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025
• There’s all sorts of xenophobia about people who are different.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Is my suspicion of calls from foreign countries a form of xenophobia?
  — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Of course, xenophobia has always assumed the existence of in-groups and out-groups.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• As the number of migrants and asylum-seekers has grown in recent years, so, too, has xenophobia.
  — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some of it is the product of xenophobia, but its root lies in this history of competition for land.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• But mankind is united in its extreme xenophobia on Super Earth.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Indeed, the xenophobia and brutality of the current era are just new models of old ideas.
  — J. Howard Rosier, Chron, 13 Dec. 2022
• The xenophobia isn't even limited to the Americans on the show.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Glamour, 27 July 2018
• The xenophobia is now amplified, many believe, because of rhetoric related to where the virus first took hold.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
• Not that Matthias has been in any way enlightened by his own experience of xenophobia.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The seeds of xenophobia are already planted as the fundamental theme of the drama.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• There was a drumbeat of xenophobia, a suspicion of outsiders, ready to condemn the other.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• Are All Refugees platform, said Ozdag was not solely to blame for the soaring xenophobia.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• As Steinbeck did some eight decades ago, Cummins calls out this selfishness and xenophobia.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2021
• A lot of that work was driven by me and my desire to tell stories around the xenophobia and bad science that surrounds that ingredient.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 9 Aug. 2023
• The fault lines of race, immigration and xenophobia can be traced back to our first arrivals in the United States.
  — Theodore Gonzalves, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
• Since the mid-1990s, observers of Russia have warned that xenophobia is growing there as well.
  — Hannah S. Chapman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• The divisive campaign over Brexit in recent years also fanned a xenophobia that some blame for a rise in racial abuse and attacks.
  — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• Many on the left argued that the law weakened France’s historical support for a right to asylum and played to xenophobia.
  — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• Ishiba may also place more importance on the formal message in light of rising right-wing populism and xenophobia in Japan.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
• Last year, Helphenstein mocked the name of a Sotheby’s auctioneer, leading him to accuse her of xenophobia.
  — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026
• This sort of dog-whistling may be intended to lure hardline conservatives but has only normalized the far-right’s xenophobia.
  — Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
• One of my goals was to provide (insofar as is possible with an essay collection) an antidote to all the fear and xenophobia swirling around us.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 June 2026