How to Use exile in a Sentence

exile

1 of 2 noun

• They hoped that his exile would be temporary.
• Many chose to live as exiles rather than face persecution.
• Of all the exile groups, the Poles seem to have been the most popular.
  — National Geographic, 4 June 2017
• Fingal was in exile, with not much time left for the world.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• And, just as Hugo was heard best from exile, so was de Gaulle.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The news has ushered in a bold new era of hope for the tens of thousands of Aussies still in exile.
  — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Ghani fled first to Uzbekistan and now is in exile in UAE.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2021
• Their collective life is a kind of gift, and a kind of exile.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• There are children to feed and schools and doctors to find while in exile.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• But Mormont fled to the Free Cities in exile to escape.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2017
• Krasovesky fled the country and also now lives in exile.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• This exile would have been a deep and lifelong injury to her heart.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• Hao might have been packing for a life of exile or a futile trip to the airport.
  — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Once among Egypt’s elite, Mo was left to start nearly from scratch in exile.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Pete Rose has paid for his mistakes with a too long exile from the Hall.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
• Constantine II, the last king of Greece who spent decades in exile, has died.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
• Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
• How big has the Ukrainian exile been—or how many Ukrainians have left?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• Most of the rest are in exile, either abroad or in foreign embassies.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• Some observers think his exile was part of a deal with the government.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• His family was living in exile in Italy at the time of his birth.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• Adding to the intrigue was how the exile of Ogorchock from District 3 to District 4 went down.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Instead, America will see a team in exile that wins time and again in spite of it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
• Thaksin was sentenced to eight years in jail on graft charges on his return from 15 years in self exile.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Most of his key aides are under house arrest or in exile.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• Thaksin was found guilty of the charges in absentia during his exile.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• Many of those who fled into exile don’t even know where their children or loved ones are.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora, of loss.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
• The elder Arévalo was forced to flee Guatemala and his son, Bernardo, was born in exile in Uruguay in 1958.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• He was taken to the hospital last week after being beaten with a hammer outside his home in Lithuania, a reminder of the dangers faced by the opposition, even in exile.
  — Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024

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exile

2 of 2 verb

• The couple was exiled and moved to France, where the Duke died in 1972.
  — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2020
• The person with the most votes was exiled from Athens for 10 years.
  — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
• In the snack shop opened by a widow who was once exiled by the gangs.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The children are not exiled to their own wing, out of sight and out of mind.
  — Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015
• Now the left is trying to exile parents from the village.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
• He was taken to the airport, to be exiled to the United States, with the 200-plus others.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• On a charter plane, they were exiled to the United States.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• But the truth is, very few cancelled celebrities are exiled for long.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• In this predicament, exiled from home and hiding in plain sight.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• The name Tahquitz comes from a shaman who, according to myth, turned against the Cahuilla people and was exiled to the canyon.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• To be exiled from a group or to see our group crushed by its enemies, could mean death.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
• As part of the deal, Diess was also able to exile a potential rival for the CEO spot.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021
• Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• The kitchen had so many of her refrigerator magnets that dozens were exiled to the back of the door leading to the garage.
  — Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• She was released upon agreeing to exile from the state, but still faces charges.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 June 2021
• Thus 52 percent of the electorate was neatly exiled to beyond the pale.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• His army destroyed the temple the Hebrew king Solomon built there, and forced the city’s elite to exile in Babylonia.
  — Joel Shurkin, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2019
• During the film, life worsens for the city after the Jews were exiled from Vienna.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2018
• Per has, in effect, been exiled from Eden, for the Adamic sin of stealing apples.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• The siege failed and the Chasseurs were ultimately exiled.
  — Sarah Gray, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2018
• Here’s the deal: Humans have been exiled to space by dragons, and Sydney and Stanley just will not take it any more.
  — Harold Goldberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• Blackwell’s Island housed the first and arguably the worst institutions in which the city of New York once exiled the poor, the mad, the criminal and the sick.
  — Patrick McGrath, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• She would be exiled with him within the walls of her childhood home, and this exile would start tomorrow or the next day.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• But then this played out beautifully with him being sent to exile in Italy to live in his shame.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 10 June 2022
• Shmoul pointed out that in 1948 many people were exiled to Israel.
  — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 1 May 2017
• But in all those years no alderman's been exiled from his own brood—until now.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018
• Lucifer is a fallen angel who was exiled from Heaven and sent to rule Hell.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 18 Dec. 2019
• Reuters At the funeral were the remnants of this opposition, the exiled, the incarcerated and the dead.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Of course, in a country where critics are routinely jailed, exiled or killed, public opinion polls are flawed.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024