Exile

//ɪɡˈzaɪl//

"Exile" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The exile yearned for his home.

The criminal was sent into exile.

Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Napoleon lived in exile on the island of Elba.

Santa Ana was living in exile in Cuba.

Won't exile be better for you than the hate of the citizens?

"How dare you exile me at the end of this sentence?" asked Tom.

Students, labor organizers, intellectuals, professional and others were kidnapped, assassinated and they "disappeared". Meanwhile many people went into exile.

Having lost the battle of wits, Tom was forced into a shameful exile.

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He lived in exile.

They chose exile rather than assimilation.

Let them be recalled from their exile.

My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.

She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.

Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.

My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.

Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

She, mouldering with the dull earth's mouldering sod, / Inwrapt tenfold in slothful shame, / Lay there exiled from eternal God, / Lost to her place and name.

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