consumerism - use in sentences

Converse of subject

  • dominate: Soelle: In a language world dominated by consumerism, we can only express ourselves in the categories of having.
  • consume: How we need to pray for people today so many of whom are consumed by consumerism.

Converse of object

  • promote: Promotion of consumerism to local business Three Guest speaker lunches are to be arranged to promote consumerism with local business.
  • reject: The Bugatti, the telephone, the female skier and the urban skyscraper include rather than reject the new consumerism.
  • challenge: A film which in many respects goes against the grain and openly challenges consumerism.
  • grow: Growing consumerism is the downside The picture, however, is not all rosy.
  • take: Has universal consumerism taken over where religion formerly reigned?
  • resist: RB: Once you resist consumerism, you're called four things, because you're erasing four different leftist categories of consumer.

Adjective modifier

  • rampant: Christmas has become yet another victim of society's rampant consumerism.
  • mindless: Either we find the nearly impossible, adequate response to mindless consumerism and accumulating technological power, or there is no hope.
  • ethical: Ethical consumerism has now entered the transport services market via the ETA.
  • western: Should we think in terms of a linear expansion of western consumerism ending in global convergence?
  • Western: These are Western materialist consumerism, and its concomitant ideologies of the superiority of the new and the rejection of the old.
  • green: It's more evidence of the growth in green consumerism in Britain.

Preposition: as

  • way: Whole nations too can engage in industrialism and consumerism as a way of evading a deeper search for national identity.

Noun used with modifier

  • mass: The unique Japanese combination of miniaturization, mass consumerism, industrial design and creativity appeals to artists and technicians alike.

The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.