Example Sentences

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But it was a fascinating experience too, enveloping in its own way even as it was alienating.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Instead of engaging and supporting him at that difficult moment, school was alienating.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Laura Grantham, 48, an engineering recruiter at the file-hosting service Dropbox, said that she was a fan of the senator but that the message was alienating.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2019

“We didn’t want to be involved in something that was alienating us from the community we serve.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2016

Though Fischer was alienating some people, such as Jack and Ethel Collins, who’d been virtual grandparents to him, he did remain close to his mother, as their ongoing correspondence at the time indicates.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady