manifest destiny
Example Sentences
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Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
As a child of the West, she was especially drawn to the films of John Wayne — that self-reliant man of action, Hollywood’s figurehead of Manifest Destiny.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
The novel’s heavyweight themes — Manifest Destiny, nihilism’s triumph over morality — are complemented by indelible imagery and sentences as expansive as desert skies.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
"We should instead be focused on meaningful restoration of the wetlands that accommodated the needs of sucker and salmon for millennia that were sacrificed on the altar of Manifest Destiny," he said.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2023
“Why do dudes always have to take up as much space as possible on the train? This isn’t Manifest Destiny, man.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
