How to Use imperialism in a Sentence

imperialism

noun
  • British imperialism created the enormous British Empire.
  • The way to crush imperialism has been shown to the world.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And there were all the wars and battles of wicked imperialism, too.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The free traders fearful of rising imperialism were so right.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The best thing that could happen to Russia is to quit imperialism.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
  • This isn’t your cheap, shabby, modern-day, oil-for-blood imperialism.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 16 May 2006
  • Critics accuse him of trying to usher in a new era of imperialism.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Kareem gave him books to read on Islam and imperialism.
    — Jeff Chang september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But after 40 years of cash and materiel shortages, the regime has learned how to wage imperialism on the cheap.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • There are also those who see expansion of the league as a form of cultural imperialism.
    — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There are also those who see expansion of the league as a form of cultural imperialism.
    — Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Her mother gets a crown, a reference to the British imperialism that triggered all that change.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The charge of climate imperialism on the part of the IEA is not lightly made.
    — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Story wise these games are eager to critique themes like gun violence and imperialism.
    — G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In their youth, these men and women saved the world from Nazism and Japanese imperialism.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • In the decades since, the connections between dollars and imperialism have only grown tighter.
    — David Adler, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In the ethics of imperialism, final judgment is always deferred to the future.
    — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • At best the demonstrators will be cast as a nuisance; at worst, as tools of American imperialism.
    — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Jeet Heer on a new era of American imperialism.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • All of this, even before the twin forces of industrialization and imperialism got to work.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • The sixth clock, the time ball in Cape Town, is mostly used to set up a discussion of the evils of slavery and imperialism.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The advance of European imperialism around the world marked the retreat of the slave trade and then of slavery itself.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Short as the individual lyrics are, the howling bill of imperialism is almost unbearable to read more than a few items a time.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
  • Corto Maltese is a stand-in for many smaller nations that found themselves in the crosshairs of modern imperialism.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • In the light of this show’s recent obsession with imperialism, the pointy objects are missiles that have to hit small circular targets on a high beam.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For example, that European imperialism is in some way a special evil, the original sin of the white race.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
  • Never mind the millions enslaved and murdered by imperialism.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Seeing the great struggle of the 20th century as imperialism’s death throes.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In his speech, Macron pitched the museum as an antidote to global conflict and the legacies of imperialism.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026
  • These events suggested to some a Shah-Carter-Bazargan axis of imperialism.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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