How to Use egalitarian in a Sentence

egalitarian

adjective
  • Posters are the egalitarian cousin of the fine art print—anyone can buy one.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 14 June 2019
  • Over time, white uniforms gave way to scrubs, which were seen as more egalitarian.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • The city itself felt like a fairly egalitarian space, as far as cities go.
    — Bradley Babendir, Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • Best of all, the posters follow the egalitarian spirit of the city.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • The drive to be an egalitarian and the drive to be an elite don’t sit easily with each other.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • This is where women, and the men who also want a more egalitarian future, come in.
    — Jill Filipovic, Marie Claire, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The egalitarian nature of these requirements made sense to me, no one wants to feel left out or unloved.
    — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, up in the sky, bats lead a much more egalitarian existence than do meerkats or mole rats.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • As adults, those sons pitch in more with their own kids and have more egalitarian attitudes in the workplace.
    — Samantha Boardman, Marie Claire, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The way to stay safe in a small human group is to be relentlessly egalitarian.
    — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • What could be more egalitarian and carefree than clothing made of paper?
    — Laura Jacobs, wsj.com, 13 May 2023
  • This is not to say that the Public’s party people are egalitarian by any stretch.
    — H.w. Vail, Vanities, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The egalitarian, open-minded type who goes antiquing and goes rooting through flea markets for gems.
    — Dina Gachman, Marie Claire, 2 Apr. 2015
  • But Miike, the most egalitarian of splatter-mongers, finds room for all of them and more.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • What’s more American than egalitarian pop on the dance floor?
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2020
  • This reflects a wider egalitarian effort on the homegrown front that aims to put high-end perfume within reach.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 11 July 2017
  • There’s an egalitarian approach … and there’s something kind of pure and wonderful about that.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Not that there aren’t any more rich people in residence in the summer, but the season has become far more egalitarian.
    — Mel Shields, sacbee.com, 25 May 2017
  • This love, combined with egalitarian ideals, has made Hill a bit of a late-blooming maverick.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • That will look very different from a wealthy, egalitarian country where cancer is one of the biggest causes of death.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The author took a swipe at a blogger who’d been to the egalitarian wonderland of Cuba.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Twenty years ago, dotcom evangelists wouldn't shut up about the web as a land of milk and honey, an egalitarian Eden.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
  • This was a strong testament to our egalitarian team culture at Saffron Road—from the top down.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the groups were more egalitarian, with information about the cantaloupe willingly shared amongst the lemurs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And now, just like with music and most creative endeavors, the bar to entry has lowered and become more egalitarian.
    — Julie Seabaugh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Yet once again, the lessons of network theory had been overlooked, for giant social networks are not in the least bit egalitarian.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • And Meghan is effortlessly chic, like a Bond girl, but more egalitarian.
    — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 19 May 2018
  • Faithful customers approved of this egalitarian, no-frills approach that was intended as a way to speed up the boarding process and get jets in the air a bit faster.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • To me, Jim harks back to the best and most egalitarian tradition in journalism, which is the working person’s tabloid.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 21 May 2017
  • There’s also an egalitarian quality to soccer that other sports lack.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026

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