How to Use xenophobe in a Sentence

xenophobe

noun
  • Lovecraft was an unabashed racist, xenophobe, and anti-semite.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2020
  • So why does the picture of the Gilets Jaunes as far-right xenophobes persist?
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Many told me the liberal media had smeared them as racists, xenophobes and misogynists.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The staff, for instance, is not composed of only knee-jerk xenophobes and hillbilly rabble-rousers.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 4 Apr. 2017
  • But from a xenophobe’s perspective, the face mask seemed to implicate foreigners as agents of diseases.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2020
  • In the last week or so, Fox has managed to malign poor retirees and Jews while pandering to xenophobes.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Everybody knows that the president is a racist and a xenophobe who draws fervent support from outright white nationalists.
    — David Klion, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Even China’s vaunted propaganda machine that slanders its critics as racists and xenophobes no longer works.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Anyone who challenges [the establishment’s] control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
  • This president has given a voice to every abuser, bigot, bully, misogynist, racist and xenophobe in the country.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al.com, 16 July 2019
  • García Hernández outlines the history that gave Trump his xenophobe’s toolbox.
    — Lawrence Downes, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Following his presidency, our country elected a racist xenophobe.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 17 May 2018
  • But May, in seeking to appease the xenophobes, has said that restricting immigration is her first priority.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2017
  • In 2017, notorious xenophobe Geert Wilders came up short in the Netherlands.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The new mayor is a strident xenophobe, given to outbursts of nationalistic language that give Jägerstätter pause.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Nine parties will enter parliament, including everything from communists to far-right xenophobes, and there is no obvious coalition.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Morrissey sniffs, at best showing poor judgment, at worst demonstrating how racists and xenophobes let their own insecurities fuel discrimination.
    — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The Supreme Court upholding the Muslim travel ban is devastating, too, in a victory this week for xenophobes that will surely lead to further human-rights violations.
    — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • During a brief speech, Vance told a crowd of around 200 people at the Hillbrook Country Club that complaining about border security could get one cast by the political left as a xenophobe.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 18 July 2021
  • The party panders to a grab-bag of conservative impulses, giving a political home to climate-deniers, Euroskeptics, xenophobes and chauvinists tired of Germany having to atone for the Holocaust.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Back in the 1990s, xenophobes in Germany would taunt Turkish immigrants at sports stadiums by waving plastic bags in the air, the flimsy type from inexpensive malls where immigrant families did their shopping.
    — Can Dündar, Time, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Democrats’ politically correct messaging derides opponents as deplorable racists, sexists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes and nativists.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2017

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