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.
  • Of all the exile groups, the Poles seem to have been the most popular.
    National Geographic, 4 June 2017
  • Fingal was in exile, with not much time left for the world.
    Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • And, just as Hugo was heard best from exile, so was de Gaulle.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Ghani fled first to Uzbekistan and now is in exile in UAE.
    Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Their collective life is a kind of gift, and a kind of exile.
    Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • There are children to feed and schools and doctors to find while in exile.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
  • But Mormont fled to the Free Cities in exile to escape.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Krasovesky fled the country and also now lives in exile.
    Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • 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
  • Once among Egypt’s elite, Mo was left to start nearly from scratch in exile.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Pete Rose has paid for his mistakes with a too long exile from the Hall.
    David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Constantine II, the last king of Greece who spent decades in exile, has died.
    Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
    Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
  • How big has the Ukrainian exile been—or how many Ukrainians have left?
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Most of the rest are in exile, either abroad or in foreign embassies.
    The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Some observers think his exile was part of a deal with the government.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • His family was living in exile in Italy at the time of his birth.
    Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • Adding to the intrigue was how the exile of Ogorchock from District 3 to District 4 went down.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, America will see a team in exile that wins time and again in spite of it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Thaksin was sentenced to eight years in jail on graft charges on his return from 15 years in self exile.
    TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Many of those who fled into exile don’t even know where their children or loved ones are.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora, of loss.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The elder Arévalo was forced to flee Guatemala and his son, Bernardo, was born in exile in Uruguay in 1958.
    USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • So, a lot of people were displaced, A lot of people had to go into exile.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023
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exile

2 of 2 verb
  • The couple was exiled and moved to France, where the Duke died in 1972.
    Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The person with the most votes was exiled from Athens for 10 years.
    Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
  • 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
  • He was taken to the airport, to be exiled to the United States, with the 200-plus others.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
  • On a charter plane, they were exiled to the United States.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But the truth is, very few cancelled celebrities are exiled for long.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • In this predicament, exiled from home and hiding in plain sight.
    New York Times, 3 May 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
  • 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
  • As part of the deal, Diess was also able to exile a potential rival for the CEO spot.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • She was released upon agreeing to exile from the state, but still faces charges.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 June 2021
  • Thus 52 percent of the electorate was neatly exiled to beyond the pale.
    Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • His army destroyed the temple the Hebrew king Solomon built there, and forced the city’s elite to exile in Babylonia.
    Joel Shurkin, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2019
  • During the film, life worsens for the city after the Jews were exiled from Vienna.
    Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Per has, in effect, been exiled from Eden, for the Adamic sin of stealing apples.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The siege failed and the Chasseurs were ultimately exiled.
    Sarah Gray, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Here’s the deal: Humans have been exiled to space by dragons, and Sydney and Stanley just will not take it any more.
    Harold Goldberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • Blackwell’s Island housed the first and arguably the worst institutions in which the city of New York once exiled the poor, the mad, the criminal and the sick.
    Patrick McGrath, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shmoul pointed out that in 1948 many people were exiled to Israel.
    Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 1 May 2017
  • But in all those years no alderman's been exiled from his own brood—until now.
    Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018
  • Lucifer is a fallen angel who was exiled from Heaven and sent to rule Hell.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 18 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • During the Korean War, the family was exiled and moved to Japan.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023

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