How to Use anti-American in a Sentence

anti-American

adjective
  • They've been called anti-American and other things, and they've been doxed.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Greenberg also pushed back against the idea that the protests are anti-American.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • His remarks were denounced back home as anti-American.
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • At worst, as an antisemitic and anti-American cesspool.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The anti-American tyrants that rule Iran have been rejoicing ever since.
    — Jeffrey Gedmin, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The flags, waved by protesters to show pride, were seen by many as symbols of anti-American defiance.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
  • This isn’t based on facts, simply a charge that universities are anti-American.
    — Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The tariffs are anti-American Dream.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Walters is right that ceding ground to one anti-American power will strengthen the others.
    — Michael Lucchese, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
  • The regime will close ranks for its survival, and any successor will have to prove his anti-American mettle to seal his support from the base.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats see the new stories of migrants self-deporting as an anti-American horror.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 18 July 2025
  • People who have said anti-American things, and have said things that are pro-Russia and pro-China.
    — NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Those moves spawned anti-American militias, including groups that Jolani joined.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Trump and his administration are anti-American in spirit and in deed.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Our cities deserve leadership that fights for them in the face of anti-American policies, not one who cowers in the face of right-wing pressure.
    — Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • For months, conservatives from the president on down have painted him as anti-American.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There's nothing more anti-American and unsupportive than that.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The Sheik also dialed up his character’s anti-American rhetoric.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Even typing that out feels almost anti-American, anathema to the ethos of hard work and ambition that has propelled so many of the great minds and ideas that have changed the world.
    — Jason Schreier, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In its absence, other anti-American entities and nations will be invited to step in and sway influence against us.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Supporters frame the marches as a patriotic defense of free speech, while critics call them anti-American.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 7 July 2023
  • And all America is blessed, not just the anti-American Leftists that Democrats prefer.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Some Republicans have decried the protests as anti-American.
    — NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The result has been both anti-Israeli and anti-American outrage across the Middle East.
    — Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Some Republican leaders have labeled the protests as anti-American.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In Canada, the anti-refugee and anti-American climate has been escalating.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The Russians, who were resentful of Western efforts to freeze them out over Ukraine, have toned down their anti-American rhetoric.
    — Richard Gowan, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding.
    — Kyle Anderson, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This critical but unstable region could become far more chaotic and war-prone, with anti-American regimes becoming stronger and more entrenched.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
  • How much hip-hop iconography would be considered anti-American under this new regime of revisionist history?
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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