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Example sentences for "exile"

Lexicographically close words:
exigency; exigent; exigible; exigua; exiguous; exiled; exiles; exilian; exilic; exiling
  1. The abdication and exile of Napoleon spread the calm of peace over the face of Europe.

  2. In those times of war, employment was readily found in the French armies for their many adherents, who had been driven into exile with them.

  3. Surrendering, at length, the hopeless contest, abdicating the throne, he passed into honourable exile in Elba.

  4. Exile was a terrible punishment to a Florentine, for Florence was not merely his native city,--it was his country, and loved and honored as such.

  5. The name recalled of course the long exile of the Jews from their land.

  6. From that day until the period when he was driven into exile from the land of his fathers, he was pursued with an intolerance relentless as the grave.

  7. Many of them that were in exile from their late homes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut, left their families behind them, under the protection of the whigs.

  8. The overthrow of the Napoleonic Empire and the exile of Bonaparte gave promise of a return to normal conditions so far as maritime rights were concerned.

  9. From the moment when France declared war upon Great Britain to the exile of Napoleon two decades later, the United States as a neutral nation was incessantly menaced by the aggressions of one or the other of the belligerents.

  10. To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

  11. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

  12. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.

  13. Some at least saw no chance of any other fate than indefinite exile spent in dependence upon the inner group for even the means of existence.

  14. This suit was brought not merely in the name of Artacho, but in that of all the exiles who were described as living in exile in Hongkong in accordance with an agreement made with the Spanish Government.

  15. He had seen a resemblance now and then that turned him cold, but when all was said and done there was no reason, no unforgivable reason, for him to exile himself from life.

  16. If Thornton could not force a social position for her, then he must pay for the luxury of her exile with him.

  17. All through this gigantic struggle the hand of the Irish patriot and exile was prominently observable.

  18. There was nothing worse in all this than we had had before since our exile from Crescent Beach; but I did not take the same delight in the propinquity of electric cars and arc lights that I had till now.

  19. I had been now living for more than a year at Belleville, and I saw with extreme pleasure the end of my task and of my exile drawing near.

  20. I therefore formed a resolution which my relations and friends declared to be madness, but from which they could not turn me, and that was to exile myself voluntarily until my task was completed.

  21. An Englishman may smile, but a Scotchman will sigh at the postscript, in which the poor starving exile asks the loan of his patron's bagpipes that he might play over some of the melancholy tunes of his own land.

  22. I had thought of Diana as she was, when her parting tear dropped on my cheek--when her parting token, received from the wife of MacGregor, augured her wish to convey into exile and conventual seclusion the remembrance of my affection.

  23. But, soon after, this daring adventurer was engaged in a very dark intrigue against an exile of his own country, and placed pretty nearly in his own circumstances.

  24. Fame and freedom are cheaply purchased by a few weeks' residence in the North, even though your place of exile be Osbaldistone Hall.

  25. Again she paid the exile a visit, taking with her an elderly man, who was betrothed to his daughter, but he could not overcome his fears.

  26. I come to redeem my word,--to share your exile or your death.

  27. On this spot landed from exile Henry of Bolingbroke, known afterwards in our annals as King Henry IV.

  28. With his usual adaptability and his powers of dissimulation he contrived easily to please Mrs. Riccabocca, and to increase the good opinion the exile was disposed to form of him.

  29. Not that the exile conceived any suspicion of the young man beyond that which he might have shared with Jackeymo, viz.

  30. It was a joyous day when Judy returned to college just before mid-years, after her long exile in the back room of O'Reilly's.

  31. So it was that Judy's exile was happy enough, and when Christmas holidays approached she had made up most of her lost work and was ready for Molly's careful coaching.

  32. Six years later he was joined in exile by Pasquier Quesnel who succeeded him as leader of the party.

  33. And yet just beyond the wall which protects our dead, that other wall which rises and is indefinitely prolonged into the gray November country, is the Great Wall of China; and we are in exile far, frightfully far from home.

  34. When their cause was lost forever, they wrote gossipy letters from their exile in London or pathetic verses in their new home in Nova Scotia and Ontario.

  35. George Sandys, scholar and poet, finds his solace during a Virginia exile in continuing his translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses.

  36. It was in truth a "sifting," and though a few picturesque rascals had the courage to go into exile while a few saints may have been deterred, it is a truism to say that the pioneers were made up of brave men and braver women.

  37. It matters little to us, who act as our conscience dictates, without troubling ourselves as to the personal result; and to whom faith and exile have given the habit of looking higher than the praise or blame of this earth.

  38. How can you propose such an exile to the Marquis?

  39. Not a single condemnation to death or exile bore witness to a severity which it would have been our right to have exercised, but which the perfect unanimity which reigned amongst all the elements of the state rendered useless.

  40. At least, faithful friend, you have tried that experiment as far as human nature will permit;" and he extended his hand to his fellow-exile with that familiarity which exists between servant and master in the usages of the continent.

  41. It has gone far towards finishing that process of separation of the child from the parent which two centuries of exile and two long wars had failed to complete.

  42. Long afterward, when an exile in the East, his powers of mind shine as brightly as they did when he crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps to fulfil his oath.

  43. Love is always an exile where avarice holds his dwelling.

  44. I have even thought of whiling away my exile by attempting some such scheme.

  45. I, in addition to relieving the monotony of my present exile at Bastia, may perhaps be inaugurating a happier state of affairs in this most unfortunate country.

  46. He hungered for them as the exile hungers for the sight of his own home.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; alien; ban; banish; banishment; bar; barbarian; blackball; cast; castaway; chuck; clear; clearance; cut; degradation; deport; deprivation; derelict; detachment; discard; disjunction; displace; disposal; disposition; eject; ejection; eliminate; elimination; emigrant; emigrate; eradicate; exclude; exclusion; excommunicate; exile; expatriate; expel; expulsion; extradition; foreigner; gringo; immigrant; isolate; lag; leper; liquidate; liquidation; migrant; ostracism; outcast; outlander; outlaw; outlawry; outsider; pariah; proscribe; punish; punishment; purge; refugee; relegate; removal; remove; rid; riddance; severance; snub; spurn; stranger; suspension; transport; transportation; turf; undesirable; untouchable; uproot; wanderer; withdrawal