How to use exile in a sentence

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• Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.From the entry purchase
• The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.From the entry pretend
• Those to avoid death ended up being exiled.From the entry to
• Exile had worn the man to a shadow.From the entry wear
• A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.From the entry depose
• A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.From the entry habitué
• The panic also spread to YouTube, an important source of income for many exiled dissidents, including Li.2024 March 18, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, “A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media…. From the entry dissident
• Femceldom represents a sort of self-constructed exile, a dark, rotting core beneath the soft frills of hyperfemininity.2024, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, “The return of the femcel”, in The Griffith Review. From the entry hyperfemininity
• Being exiled from the Nexus was a huge shock, I still can't believe Tann did that.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Fresh start. From the entry watch out
• No one would have known that she had come here this morning a traitor and an exile.2016 May 5, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Black Arts, David Fickling Books, →ISBN. From the entry grampers
• If she commanded it, I too would go to Shoreditch, and nurse myself in exile.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 16. From the entry Shoreditch
• In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.2014 February 20, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books. From the entry émigré
• Being “reluctant exiles,” they have succeeded in planting their roots in Canada.[2013, Lan-hung Nora Chiang, “Different Voices: Identity Formation of Early Taiwanese Migrants in Canada”, in Immigrant Adaptation in…. From the entry Huaqiao
• He was a Geordie exile, who still referred to Newcastle Brown Ale as "Journey into Space".2013, Mike Brown, Thrilling, Sweet and Rotten, AuthorHouse, page 27. From the entry Journey into Space
• After the exile, God's kingship changed from more henotheistic expressions to monotheistic ones.2012, M. David Litwa, We Are Being Transformed, Walter de Gruyter, page 245. From the entry henotheistic
• Slit nostrils and gouged eyes ensured that Apius's exiled sister-sons need not be considered by the Senators.2010, Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium. From the entry sisterson
• What to say of the other notions (hypostasis) they introduce, exiles (paroikia), reflections (antitypos) and resipiscences (metanoia).2005, Gilles Quispel, “Plotinus and the Jewish Gnōstikoi”, in Johannes van Oort, editor, Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica: Collected Essays of…. From the entry resipiscence
• The Sh'khinah suffers with Israel in exile and will return with it at the time of redemption.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 837. From the entry shechinah
• There I waited, exiled from the realm of sensical thoughts, for Lou's sons to find me.2001 June, Alexandra Styron, All the Finest Girls: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company; 1st paperback edition, Boston…. From the entry sensical
• While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.1997, John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style, page 156. From the entry belonger
• They think they are romantic, tragic figures, exiled as on Elba.1992/1993 Winter, Katherine Weissman, “The Divorce Gang”, in Ploughshares, volume 18, number 4, page 202. From the entry as
• During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province.1990, Chen Yizi (陳一諮), quotee, Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry starve
• The Ch’u-chou exile began what was to be a long nine-year absence from the Court.1984, Ronald C. Egan, “Introduction”, in The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Ch'u-chou
• But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry sentimentalist
• And the widows of murdered men—not sharing that exile—accepted the wiveless men of Ades as their deliverers.1947, Murray Leinster, The Boomerang Circuit; republished as “The Boomerang Circuit”, in Black Cat Weekly, number 58, 2022, page 657. From the entry wiveless
• For internees the war was experienced in exile.2015 January, Jan Jarboe Russell, “The All-American Camp”, in The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and…. From the entry bardo
• To separate them, their father exiled Pele to Hawaii.2012, Jim Ollhoff, South Pacific Mythology, ABDO Publishing Company, page 28. From the entry Pele
• Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.2011, Ben Okri, A Time For New Dreams, →ISBN. From the entry deadland
• I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.2011, Mark Leach, Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Patmosian
• Some Cuban exiles pressured the U.S. government to let the “truckonauts,” as they called them, enter the country.2004 February 16, Tracey Eaton, “Latest effort to flee drives Cuban migration debate”, in The Dallas Morning News. From the entry truckonaut
• Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.2001, Geoffrey Hill, “Wreaths”, in Daniel McGuiness, editor, Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, page 74. From the entry outwaste
• He is Everyman in exile, the exile in every man.1985, R. P. Blackmur, “The Jew in Search of a Son”, in Harold Bloom, editor, The Art of the Critic, New York: Chelsea House Publishers…. From the entry transigent
• Nearly half his workers were Greeks, exiles or refugees from the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks.1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry saddlebag
• We now realize that the oblivial water is in contact with him: it joins our home and our country of exile.1974, Michael H. Begnal, A Conceptual Guide to Finnegans Wake, page 31. From the entry oblivial
• We’re both exiles, aren’t we?’ He bellowsed the end red again and continued, delicate as a musician, his scoring.1966, Anthony Burgess, Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, New York: Norton, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 173. From the entry bellows
• Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74. From the entry fairy floss

Meaning of exile

1. noun The state of being banished from one's home or country.
2. noun Someone who is banished from their home or country.
3. verb To send (someone or something) into exile.

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Questions about exile in a sentence

How do you use exile in a sentence?

Exile is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He lived in exile.”

What is a short sentence with exile?

“He lived in exile.”

What does exile mean?

Exile means the state of being banished from one's home or country.