How to Use ostracize in a Sentence

ostracize

verb

• The other girls ostracized her because of the way she dressed.
• She was ostracized from the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs.
• What were the responses of the adults in your life when you were ostracized?
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The men had already been ostracized, and the pressure on them was enormous.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
• The thing about sellouts is that they are ostracized and shunned by their people.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 1 Nov. 2017
• Marinari agrees that there is a sense of ostracizing moms who don’t drink from those who do.
  — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 20 Nov. 2018
• Adding the label of witch, zhu, would surely ostracize their family from the rest of the village.
  — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
• He and teammate Tommie Smith were ostracized and ridiculed for the gesture.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017
• Men like Liteky are people who should force us to pause and think; they should not be ostracized and criticized.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
• Cast members switch teams, ostracize each other, and stab one another in the back again and again.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2023
• Many of them feel ostracized on their campus for their beliefs.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020
• Our goal of this package is not to ostracize, separate, or add to the maelstrom of click-bait on the internet.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2019
• Once ostracized and called a witch, she is now considered prophetic and gifted, and the people in her town flock to her for good luck.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2023
• Back in my day, the trans people that were brave enough to be open and out were very ostracized from society, in my perception.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• Many of the patients had been ostracized from their families and lost their jobs—everything in their life was gone.
  — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• Children borne of rape grow up ostracized, with less access to civil rights.
  — Alice Su, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017
• As the happy, purposeful crowd pushes into school, the bully is left to gape and blush, alone and ostracized.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• Their children were ostracized and mocked for being the children of garbagemen.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 18 Apr. 2018
• Her mother was ostracized for getting pregnant; her father was killed the day she was born.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• For years, her experience with the art world in New York was ostracizing.
  — M.h. Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• And Cowboy, Mollie's son and Margie's father, was also ostracized despite being a child at the time of the murders.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• The thing that my Peruvian family used so discreetly here in the U.S. in order to not be ridiculed or ostracized is now a trend.
  — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• By his own account, Vaughters was a misfit in high school, bullied and ostracized.
  — Bill Gifford, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• Backers say he shouldn't be ostracized for something that happened so long ago.
  — Michael Tarm, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• Each had an American name to use in the outside world, where they were often ostracized and called monkeys and savages.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• For years, Harding was ostracized as many members of the public were convinced she was involved in the attack on Harding.
  — Sasha Savitsky, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Then Qatar was ostracized, so the project was expedited.
  — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 12 June 2017
• On top of being ostracized from his classmates, he was constantly bullied and had nobody to turn to.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2017
• For Carrie, who grew up in Kansas City, this meant being ostracized for not liking fried chicken and hot sauce.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 23 Feb. 2018
• The case of the Ukrainian museum comes with a twist: Can a family name be enough to ostracize somebody who is otherwise beloved?
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024