How to Use excommunicate in a Sentence

excommunicate

verb

• But that won’t be enough, of course, just as excommunicating all the bad guys won’t be enough.
  — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
• Cox was excommunicated by a vote of 22-12, but thank God, Charley was back in chains.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
• She had been excommunicated by the Pope, and her country was shunned by the rest of Europe.
  — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
• The one who took the worst beating was me, the death threats was me, excommunicated by Major League Baseball was me,’’ Canseco said.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• One by one, these men have been excommunicated from the Left.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 28 July 2017
• Afraid the church was going to excommunicate him, Jackson begged Landis to have the film destroyed.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• In 1521, the church declared Luther a heretic and excommunicated him.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2017
• And yet those are the ones that kind of are excommunicated forever.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 23 May 2018
• The bishops who stayed and those who fled had excommunicated each other.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• The church said Bratton is no longer a member, is no longer receiving a salary, and that he was excommunicated by the church the following Sunday, May 19.
  — CBS News, 17 June 2019
• Hus’s preaching led in due course to papal bulls being sent to Prague excommunicating him.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• But there are plenty of saints who have been excommunicated.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 30 Apr. 2017
• The bishops had accused the church of neglecting their region, and each side excommunicated the other.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• The divorce did not fall in line with the church's beliefs, leaving Forrest excommunicated and banned from seeing his children.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 10 Feb. 2015
• She was excommunicated, but her brother-in-law was not.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Woods and Bryson DeChambeau, who recently suggested that Woods had all but excommunicated him, will not have a reunion at the first tee.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Today many of these public figures act as if the sport is all better now that Landis and Armstrong have been excommunicated.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
• Young, a 65-year-old lifelong Mormon, becomes the third high-profile member of the faith who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
  — Brady McCombs, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018
• The Church has excommunicated people who disagree with this point.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Spickler had run afoul of the organization some years before and had been excommunicated, so to speak.
  — Ron Miscavige, Esquire, 3 May 2016
• However, since gaining her new title, she has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 6 Jan. 2015
• If ousted, Young would become the third high-profile Mormon who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
  — Brady McCombs, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• Last May, Kathy Griffin was unfairly excommunicated from the church of pop culture.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Her sister Margaret Toscano, who was also Paul Toscano’s wife, was excommunicated in 2000.
  — Benjamin Park, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
• Many, if not most, of those investors were Mennonites, and the religious community’s judgment has been swift: Three of the owners have been excommunicated.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• And yet, there the old man sits, hunched over in some lifeless, windowless palace of gaming or at a speaking engagement in Poughkeepsie, signing his name to baseballs, excommunicated.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• Rushie, 35, accused the group of defamation and excommunicating him from the Fishtown community.
  — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The church should excommunicate these two leaders of an atheistic, communist state, signaling that the punishment might well be extended to the hereafter.
  — WSJ, 7 July 2022
• Radkey, who left the LDS church in the mid-1970s and was later excommunicated after publicly criticizing it, was blocked from the part of the database that shows the baptisms until recently getting a login from a Mormon friend.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• Jordyn will be excommunicated by the KarJenners and put on public trial by social media in the aftermath of one night out with Tristan Thompson.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019

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