How to Use nationalist in a Sentence

nationalist

1 of 2 noun

• The nationalists in Vox — who called for the Catalan movement to be put down by any means necessary — soaked up support.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Each of the columns raced to the accusation that Johnson is a Christian nationalist.
  — Steele Brand, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
• The schools were attacked by nationalists on social media and deleted their posts.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• On the other side of the planet, in Brazil, voters in 2018 elected a right-wing nationalist, Jair Bolsonaro, as president.
  — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
• In 1919, the Haitian nationalist Charlemagne Péralte led a rebellion against the occupiers.
  — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• The far-right nationalist held back from doing so and instead focused on attacks against da Silva.
  — Mauricio Savarese, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The gas-rich southwestern Balochistan province at the border of Afghanistan and Iran has been the site of a low-level insurgency by Baloch nationalists for more than two decades.
  — Abdul Sattar The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• And many Christian nationalists, including in the United States, have gotten in line.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• The yield on France’s 10-year bonds rose to a seven-year high last week on concerns at the prospect of a nationalist with longstanding sympathies for Russia taking power in the middle of the Ukraine war.
  — Fortune, 10 Apr. 2022
• But Catholic nationalists wanted self-determination, and the result was the conflict known as the Troubles.
  — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 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
• In the West, racists and right-wing nationalists stoke fears of African population growth to justify hatred, or even violence.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• From its launch in 2021, Hindutva Watch has been a thorn in the side of Hindu nationalists who have been provoking anti-Muslim sentiment for years.
  — Parth M.n., Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• For many who voted for left-wing candidates in the first round April 10, this runoff vote presents a unpalatable choice between a nationalist in Le Pen, and a president who some feel has veered to the right during his first term.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022
• 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
• At issue is the fact that Greene and Gosar recently addressed a conference organized by a White nationalist.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
• For a time, this divide-and-conquer policy seemed to work well for Israel in Gaza, with clashes flaring between nationalists and Islamists in 1980.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• The settler movement is a mix of nationalists, religious ideologues and those seeking new lives.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• But over the course of the following week, hundreds of Muslims were slaughtered as Hindu nationalists went on a rampage that included rapes, looting and murder.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• Sadr, who presents himself as an Iraqi nationalist, is considered the Shi’ite political leader least tied to Iran.
  — Jane Arraf, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
• Raam, a coalition composed of the communist Hadash party and the secular nationalist Ta’al, party, and Balad.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• There are, of course, plenty of nonwhite Christians in America, and even nonwhite Christian nationalists.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• In the following years, Hindu nationalists rallied to build the Ram Mandir on the land, setting the stage for an emotional and politically charged showdown that lasted nearly three decades.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Under Mahatma Ghandi and other Indian nationalists, the spinning wheel became the symbol of drive to end British rule.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 13 July 2023
• These nationalists are therefore surprised when Sikhs oppose their policies and vote against their candidates.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• Throughout the conflict, acts of violence were committed by all sides — nationalists, loyalists and state forces.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023

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nationalist

2 of 2 adjective

• The country's Nationalist Party won the election.
• The blast was the third to target a leading Russian nationalist figure in the last year.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• There was no mention of Greene speaking at a white-nationalist event last year.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• His spokesperson said this was planned as the National Rally’s partner in Italy is a smaller nationalist group, the League.
  — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
• Israeli police begin to take their positions in front of the mosque and around the Dome of the Rock, in preparation for the arrival of dozens of nationalist and religious Israeli Jews.
  — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
• Access to pilgrimage sites has been a big part of the agenda of the governing Hindu nationalist party.
  — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Modi is the leader of the Hindu nationalist outfit, known as Bharatiya Janata Party.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2023
• First Liberty is just as much a part of the far right, to be clear, but its aim is not the promotion of evangelical values or support for a Christian nationalist project.
  — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Boys their son’s age were crossing the border to Zambia and Mozambique to fight with nationalist guerrillas, or they were being jailed and tortured for protesting at home.
  — Andrew Holter, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
• The powerful nationalist wing of the GOP is uncomfortable with war today.
  — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
• Prigozhin's demise was followed by the arrest of other nationalist figures critical of Putin's failure to execute the war.
  — Charles Maynes, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
• But in fact, the invasion awakened nationalist sentiments in the country.
  — John B. Judis, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
• Pro-Israel Democrats have grown tired of Netanyahu, whose ruling coalition is too nationalist and too religious for them to stomach.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• Publicly, and on social media, Greek people have expressed their support for Turkey, except for some on the far nationalist fringe.
  — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 12 Feb. 2023
• Immigration is one of the biggest political issues in Europe and has played a major role in the rise of nationalist parties across the continent over the past decade.
  — Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023
• But in the largest democracy in the world, the summit was another reminder of the country's Hindu nationalist government's approach to press freedom.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 10 Sep. 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
• At a Bajrang Dal rally, a Hindu nationalist leader openly boasted that Fazil was killed out of revenge.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The latter show ran afoul of Hindu nationalist politicians and Khan is keenly aware of the sensitivities of producing a show in India.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
• China’s Internet — often an echo chamber for nationalist emotions — resounded with calls for Beijing to stand up to the United States over the shooting down of the balloon.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023
• But his media outlets often echoed his nationalist and anti-refugee views.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• The truth is that, all along, not much ever separated neocons such as Kagan from a nationalist such as Trump, except the pretense that what is good for the United States, including all its war-making, is good for the world.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• That is the militant wing of the secular Palestinian nationalist group Fatah.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
• The headmaster and former choir director, who had been so concerned about the safety of his eldest son, worked as a key organizer for the nationalist resistance all along.
  — Andrew Holter, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
• That would probably embolden the nationalist Vox, whose grave warnings about the destruction of Spain would seem legitimized.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• In fact, until the late 1990s, the Meitei nationalist movement sought independence from India.
  — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
• But over the years, wearing this pin on any other day — perhaps a bit like wearing an American flag on any day other than the 4th of July — can signify right-wing nationalist sympathies.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• Read full article Many of the activist groups and rights organizations that have sprung up in the first 30 years of post-Soviet Russia have met an abrupt end, while nationalist groups once seen as fringe have taken center stage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Immigration has also been high on the agenda, and both candidates have sought to bolster their nationalist credentials before the runoff.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 May 2023

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