alienated

Example Sentences

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Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC

He argued that modern life alienated human beings from their nature.

From The Wall Street Journal

He returns to the tragedy later in his survey after guilt has alienated the Macbeths from each other and they find themselves trapped in a nightmare of their own making.

From Los Angeles Times

They badly underestimated her massive star power, and they underestimated how much their decades of misrule had alienated most of the population.

From BBC

“This alienated the aspirational customer, who is the growth engine of the luxury sector,” he continued.

From MarketWatch