How to Use individualist in a Sentence

individualist

noun
  • The school encourages children to be individualists.
  • One hurdle is to persuade a city full of ornery individualists to pitch in.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There is no place for the individualist who makes a variety of bets at his own discretion.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Poppy’s clearly a type four, that was the individualist.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Part of being a true individualist is fighting for the right of others to not conform to conventional ideas.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2021
  • These are folks who see themselves as hardy, self-sufficient, small government individualists.
    — National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Americans may be big enough to contain both frontier individualists and comfort-seeking layabouts.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The study found that almost everyone cares about preserving more lives than fewer, but that people in individualist cultures value this more.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • How, then, did programming become the domain of bearded nerds and manly individualists?
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • But at least the trash-talking, optimistic and individualist Eloise is back, after she was subdued by her rift with Penelope this year.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • Fighting is a brutal and individualist sport, and orienting your life around violence can lend itself to seeing the world in harsh absolutes.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
  • An individualist understanding of time very quickly goes in the direction of meaningless to me.
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Americans’ self-image is as a nation of rugged individualists who tamed the continent, dug the Panama Canal, and put a man on the moon.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • Most of us are more comfortable remembering a textbook America, the one of rugged individualists and lofty ideals.
    — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Pärt was a devout individualist who had emerged from the Soviet cultural system and tested its strictures at every turn.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This is a picture of the parent Johnson wants to be—the opponent of pushiness and authority, the individualist.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The variety allows for individualist takes on dressing, especially from the young stars in the audience.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 July 2017
  • Sixteen rugged individualists brave the Alaskan wilderness in this new competition.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Robot represents science as a product of the individualist.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
  • The real Paine was so much more compelling — a thin Quaker, an individualist with a big heart, who lived her life as far from a silly Texas stereotype as anyone could have.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • America needs stronger communities, and Hawley is right to tilt hard against a naked and self-seeking individualist streak among American elites.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • These groups shared a grand narrative of America, in which rugged individualists and virtuous families built the country with Bibles in one hand and guns in the other.
    — J.m. Opal, Quartz, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Of course, this being a polemic, there’s not much space given to how, exactly, the total disengagement with our individualist and capitalist society might be achieved.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Olive Nwosu‘s lively, humid debut feature zeroes in on a determined individualist in a city of over 17 million.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The folly of swapping him out for Ibrahimovic, football’s most brash individualist outside of Cristiano Ronaldo, was exposed in less than a year.
    — Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Think Marshall Miller, the base jumper, sky diver and wing-suit flyer whose death-defying antics make individualist renegades of just a generation ago seem quaint.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Onscreen, the writer in him, the personality in him, the originality in him, the individualist in him just brought the character to a different level.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Books, films, paintings and other forms of individualist human expression are forbidden and Canada (once again) is the final destination on the road to freedom.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 18 May 2018

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