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.
• Fingal was in exile, with not much time left for the world.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Of all the exile groups, the Poles seem to have been the most popular.
  — National Geographic, 4 June 2017
• There are children to feed and schools and doctors to find while in exile.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• Their collective life is a kind of gift, and a kind of exile.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Krasovesky fled the country and also now lives in exile.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• 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
• Some observers think his exile was part of a deal with the government.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• 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
• Most of the rest are in exile, either abroad or in foreign embassies.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
• His family was living in exile in Italy at the time of his birth.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• And, just as Hugo was heard best from exile, so was de Gaulle.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The old guy’s taken off in a helicopter to some exile country.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 3 Oct. 2018
• The opinions of exiles and dissidents will not get a hearing.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• One in which our celebrities are forced into space-exile.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 20 May 2015
• Many of those who fled into exile don’t even know where their children or loved ones are.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Snowden doesn’t reveal too much about his life in exile.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora, of loss.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
• Pete Rose has paid for his mistakes with a too long exile from the Hall.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
• The decade-long civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and forced millions into exile.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
• Instead, America will see a team in exile that wins time and again in spite of it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
• But Mormont fled to the Free Cities in exile to escape.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2017
• Since then, the group’s members have either been jailed or forced into exile.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Others are in exile or quit politics amid the crackdown.
  — Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Most of the party's senior members have fled into exile abroad.
  — Holly Robertson, latimes.com, 9 May 2018

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exile

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• In this predicament, exiled from home and hiding in plain sight.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• But the truth is, very few cancelled celebrities are exiled for long.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• 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
• She was released upon agreeing to exile from the state, but still faces charges.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• On a charter plane, they were exiled to the United States.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• The person with the most votes was exiled from Athens for 10 years.
  — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
• The siege failed and the Chasseurs were ultimately exiled.
  — Sarah Gray, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2018
• And some of those doctors who were detected were confined or exiled.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• 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
• As a young man, the future king grew up exiled in a realm overrun by menacing demons and monsters.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
• But in all those years no alderman's been exiled from his own brood—until now.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018
• 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
• Napoleon had abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba.
  — National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2019
• Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 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
• She was exiled to a distant mission and married to a Spanish soldier.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• During the film, life worsens for the city after the Jews were exiled from Vienna.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2018
• Stubborn and exiled, Jackie leaves the home the team has inhabited and opts to sleep outside.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• The king, a limping foreigner, is identified as the cause, accused of monstrous crimes, and exiled from the city.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Lucifer is a fallen angel who was exiled from Heaven and sent to rule Hell.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 18 Dec. 2019
• Sadly, all the other great practitioners of the genre have been exiled and their names stricken from the official record.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2018
• Thus 52 percent of the electorate was neatly exiled to beyond the pale.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Their family of four has not been together as a unit, when one parent wasn’t in jail or exiled, since the twins were toddlers.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• That was before the rules kicked in, before the fortresses had been erected and their feudal lords had exiled anyone who dared deviate too much from the norm.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• Our first introduction to her is while she’s wasted in the back of an Uber on her way to break into the home her husband has exiled her from.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 8 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024