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How to use xenophobia in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Xenophobia means a fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners. Example: “He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories.”

Examples of xenophobia by meaning

nounA fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

  • He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories.2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post, archived...
  • The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.2021 March 19, Frida Ghitis, “The GOP’s xenophobia is fueling toxic culture of hate”, in CNN

More sentences with xenophobia

  • I guess I am simply accustomed to dealing with more edulcorated versions of xenophobia.2019, Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Alfred A. Knopf, page 129. From the entry edulcorate
  • The new xenophobia is thus a collective psychological response to peregrinity.2010, Bryan S. Turner, Vulnerability and Human Rights, page 134. From the entry peregrinity
  • Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.2007, Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen, Mark Jensen, Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart, page 189. From the entry beat up
  • I see xenophobia and the range of bodies and laws to deal with it.2005 March 8, Blue, “Abuse of Fear”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 29 Sep 2025. From the entry paedophilephobia
  • If this last, embracing the alien, seems an advance on previous xenophobias, it is largely illusory.1994, Damien Broderick, Reading by Starlight, page 114. From the entry xenophobias
  • It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor.2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements. From the entry aporophobia
  • This Polonophobia and more general xenophobia, undeniably odious phenomena, paradoxically facilitated the consolidation of a Russian ethnic consciousness.2017, Marietta Stepaniants, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Polonophobia
  • BTW, have you noticed that the xenophobia regularly shown on South Park goes way overboard when the topic is Canada?2001 June 11, Aaron Hirshberg, “Re: OT Surrender Canada”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet). From the entry Canadaphobia
  • Even our xenophobias, our isolationisms, and our Know-Nothingisms, have found support in the perversions and distortions of this creed.1949, Ralph Barton Perry, Characteristically American, page 68. From the entry xenophobias
  • I hope they use my classic thread of REAL xenophobia OUTSIDE of the USA, since the X-word is thrown around like bread at pigeons.2020 December 24, @NoGamesOnNotice, Twitter. From the entry x-word
  • By the time that the tensions of Polonophobia slowly began to recede, Russian social consciousness had been “infected” with the dangerous syndrome of mass xenophobia.2017, Marietta Stepaniants, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Polonophobia
  • Every time freedom has failed in Europe, it is to that tradition - of violent repression, totalitarianism, xenophobia, and intolerance - that Europeans have reverted.2004 December 15, Emanuele Ottolenghi, “Illiberal Europe”, in The Jerusalem Post, →ISSN. From the entry illiberal
  • There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world!2003, Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz, page 329. From the entry violence

Meaning of xenophobia

  1. noun A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
  2. noun A fear of aliens.

Full definition of xenophobia

Questions about xenophobia in a sentence

How do you use xenophobia in a sentence?
Xenophobia is used as a noun. For example: “He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories.”
What is a short sentence with xenophobia?
“Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.”
What does xenophobia mean?
Xenophobia means a fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

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