How to Use exodus in a Sentence

exodus

noun
  • The longer the wait, the more Novavax risks a mass exodus.
    Jared Whitlock, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Isn’t Egypt the place the Jews were supposed to have left for good in the exodus?
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But the exodus will not be as severe as in the Bay Area.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Blunt, who grew up in the St. Roch area, is part of an exodus of renters priced out of the city’s core.
    Katy Reckdahl, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The union has blamed the law for an exodus of officers from the force.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And the teacher exodus could grow in the coming months.
    Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
  • What if just half the team stays — or less, with a mass exodus to the locker room?
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • At the heart of the problem is the exodus from law enforcement.
    Trisha Ahmed, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There are shouts of relief for the end of the half followed by a mass exodus for the bathroom.
    Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • Still, that didn’t prevent an exodus of scientists to the EU and to the U.S.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The overnight strikes triggered a mass exodus of the displaced.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Strict curbs on the movement of money have slowed the exodus.
    Enda Curran, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
  • Some of those with most to lose from a Russian exodus may be lawyers.
    The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • There’s no easy fix to slow the exodus of retail chains from cities.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • This was a slow day—there’s a smaller need for short-term housing than at the height of the exodus.
    Hanna Kozlowska, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Google didn't want to do all that work just to later cause a mass exodus from the service.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The exodus is already on pace to be the biggest in at least seven years.
    Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The sanctions themselves did not drive the exodus, Blinken said.
    Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • In Afghanistan, the exodus has emptied some villages of their men.
    Fox News, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But no exodus has been as massive and swift as the one taking place now.
    Robin McDowell, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The move could be seen as an attempt to stem an exodus of talent.
    E. Eduardo Castillo, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • These figures tend to show that the great exodus has not taken place.
    Arnaud Devigne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • There was an exodus of students from the state of Illinois.
    Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Passover seders are festive meals at which the story of their exodus is told.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Don't rule out the phone call, but do not conclude an exodus is a given.
    Mac Engel, star-telegram, 9 May 2018
  • Many of the Afghans who have joined this exodus were born in Pakistan or fled to the country decades ago as children.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This was the first year that the health care law’s markets didn’t see a mass exodus of insurers.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The exodus is likely due to how its schools will reopen.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Yet even those numbers may not fully capture the scope of the exodus.
    Anthony Faiola and Rachelle Krygier, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • Her baby, born in exodus, is sleeping next to her on a mat.
    Gaia Vince, Quartz, 8 June 2019

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