How to Use ostracism in a Sentence

ostracism

noun

• The platforms weren't used to spread the calls for the boycotts but rather were the targets of the public ostracism.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• But the result could still be ostracism at school or work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The anti-Trumpers are calling for purges and ostracism.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Qian led China’s effort to end its ostracism by the West.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Faced with her own looming ostracism in a school that sometimes feels more like a prison, what is Nora to do?
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• What the men didn’t know was that Williams was a social scientist who’d been looking for a way to study ostracism.
  — Will Storr, The Cut, 25 Apr. 2018
• Ukraine deserves more support to raise the costs of war for Mr. Putin with arms, the toughest sanctions, and global ostracism.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
• Its laws were strict, and sentences carried out in its name could include death or ostracism.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• Because her daughter was biracial, Greve faced ostracism and was forced out of her apartment in New York.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
• The court papers paint a picture of how ostracism in a police department works.
  — Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2022
• After his ostracism by Trump and the Mercers, Bannon seemed eager to return to Trump’s good graces.
  — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• Yet there is seemingly little or no ostracism of the Russian skaters here.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• Yet rarely do Western activist groups call for global ostracism of Iran.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 30 Jan. 2020
• But regardless of the reason for the silent treatment, it can be received by victims as ostracism.
  — Daryl Austin, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
• No matter how Sacco felt, her ostracism was an established fact, a thing that happened to her.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• At most, such people now faced suspicion and ostracism.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• And what can be done to purge the conformism that deters complaints about toxic colleagues, for fear of ostracism or career setbacks?
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• Boudin’s claims also failed due to the willingness of high profile Democrats to break ranks and risk political ostracism.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• His show at the Garden was a non-stop party that showed the world that the ostracism and exclusion of dembow is woefully outdated.
  — Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2021
• No player has been threatened with ostracism or censure.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2021
• This ostracism, this otherness, is among the most distressing feelings that can be felt by our social species.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• It’s unclear if other nations have the appetite to push back against Iran in a years-long campaign, or how Tehran might respond to such sustained ostracism.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 24 June 2019
• Boycott's attempt in 1880 to evict tenants following a year of bad harvest was met with protests and then social ostracism.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• After several years of ostracism, Díaz-Balart returned to public life but with a low profile.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 2 Feb. 2018
• Many albinos face threats from organ and limb harvesters, and wider ostracism is also a problem.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 13 June 2017
• Bezos was born in 1964 New Mexico to a teenage mother, who faced ostracism for her pregnancy.
  — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 2 May 2018
• The angry voices calling for Hedy Weiss' ostracism from Chicago's theater scene echo a melodrama that played in Athens 2,509 years ago.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• Disagreement is rare to nonexistent because the cost can be ostracism or lost careers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• If the bully can’t be contained by the cajoling effects of ridicule or ostracism, the other men reach a consensus, make a plan and execute him.
  — Richard Wrangham, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• Ruby’s ostracism leads to a vortex of death and destruction, a scourging of a nearly Biblical fury.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024