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Example sentences for "alienated"

Lexicographically close words:
alien; aliena; alienable; alienage; alienate; alienates; alienating; alienation; alienations; alienis
  1. As might be expected, this wholesale muzzling of the press has not only reduced the Mohammedan majority to a condition of internal ferment, but has seriously alienated the hitherto loyal Copts.

  2. This enraged all the other nationalities, alienated them from the revolution, and gave the Christian Balkan states their opportunity to attack disorganized Turkey in 1912.

  3. But both the Free State and the Cape Boers had been alienated by the unfriendly attitude of the President in commercial matters and by his refusal to employ Cape Dutchmen in the Transvaal service.

  4. Nearly all of those few persons who cared about South Africa had been alienated from the Boers by their treatment of the natives.

  5. It is exceedingly sad to see how Luther, the once zealous religious, has become alienated more and more from the heart of the Church, from her life, ways of thought and feeling.

  6. To be brief, her Mind was quite alienated from the honest Castilian, whom she was taught to look upon as a formal old Fellow unworthy the Possession of so charming a Creature.

  7. He had offended, and rejected, and alienated his early and true friends, and he felt now that it was easier to lose friends than to make them, or to recover their affection when it once was lost.

  8. Napoleon's encroachments were too obvious, his power in Europe too menacing, his concessions in diplomacy too tardy and niggardly to enable him to resist the power of English gold and the zeal of the alienated Tsar.

  9. The disputes ran high, and the British entertained hopes that Vermont would be so far alienated from the rebel cause, by the injustice of Congress, as to be induced to return to its allegiance to the British crown.

  10. His heart, ready to sympathise with everything that was great and generous, had already been alienated from Royalism; already the man, poet and philosopher, was kicking beneath the priestly robe.

  11. His sudden transformation from Gannot to Mapah, his declaration to the Pope, and his presumption in posing as a revealer, alienated his former disciples; it was the durus his sermo.

  12. To this failure the defection of native royalists contributed, for they were alienated not so much by the presence of the Spanish troops as by the often merciless severity that marked their conduct.

  13. On the other hand, the Prince Regent's aversion to popular education or anything that might savor of democracy and the greed of his followers for place and distinction alienated his colonial subjects.

  14. There is much yet to come upon which he must depend, not only for a posthumous verdict, but for that which we hope he may yet receive, an honourable acquittal from those who are at present alienated from his side.

  15. By this means she wins its love, and binds it inseparably to her heart, that it may never be alienated from her in affection.

  16. In all your plans of creation and restoration you only leave out God, from whom they have alienated you.

  17. Prince Bismarck has alienated all Catholics and all lovers of freedom.

  18. Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland were alienated from Rome, and might soon revolt altogether.

  19. If His Holiness did not demand the restoration of the ecclesiastical property alienated during the last two reigns, and now distributed among over forty thousand proprietors, all might go well.

  20. Caraffa had become more and more alienated from his early friends.

  21. Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

  22. And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: 1:22.

  23. He alienated Disraeli by tracing a purple patch in his official eulogy of Wellington to a newspaper translation from Thiers's funeral panegyric on General St Cyr.

  24. When the before noticed dissension occurred, Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, between whom a strong friendship had latterly sprung up, became alienated from Mr. Coleridge, and cherished something of an indignant feeling.

  25. An alienated people, crushed by military force, served merely as a bait to tempt foreign aggression, and to make the way easy before it.

  26. Even the Spaniards, who had been on his side in 1632 were alienated by it.

  27. His lack of humour has alienated the interest of thousands.

  28. She had lost her allies and alienated the sympathies of neutrals.

  29. The offer was therefore made by the latter (June 19th) in the name of the First Consul that in no case would Louisiana ever be alienated to a Third Power.

  30. His education had alienated him from them, as it had alienated him from his family.

  31. The well-regulated behaviour and confident bearing of his aristocratic friends satisfied his aesthetic sense; his education had brought him nearer to them, and alienated him from the lower classes.

  32. It was a momentous decision, for it left him without any definite means of support, it alienated the authorities of the University, it isolated him from many old friends.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alienated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.