imperialist

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Both men were imperialists who saw the uncompleted Panama Canal as key to U.S. power.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Controlling territory abroad is expensive, as past imperialists discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Traditionally, Danes have viewed themselves as the world's nicest imperialists ever since they started to colonise Greenland in the 1720s.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

Zygar calls not for cancellation but for reckoning, just as the British have reexamined Rudyard Kipling and other imperialists.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Once we were in the air, I lost my nervousness and studied the geography of Ethiopia, thinking how guerrilla forces hid in these very forests to fight the Italian imperialists.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela