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Use ostracize in a sentence

Definition of ostracize:

  • (verb) expel from a community or group
  • (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with

Sentence Examples:

You look as solemn as an ostracized owl.

Do they avoid and ostracize them socially?

To do otherwise would be to ostracize himself.

I am not ostracized by a single officer.

Anyone who hinted of social wrong was ostracized.

He had been completely ostracized by his neighbors.

To these rules we must conform or be ostracized.

"Any society person found there would be ostracized."

I cannot ostracize myself, and reach my goal.

No stigma or disgrace attached to the person ostracized.

I would a great deal rather be beaten than ostracized.

His home disgraced, his position ruined, his children ostracized.

"This connection will ostracize them both," his wife said.

Any member who disregards his vows will be ostracized.

Do not condemn or ostracize John Thorwald in any degree.

Nor have I for a moment intended to ostracize your friends.

Dress, living, servants, carriages, everything must conform, or be ostracized.

They should be treated as criminals ostracized from respectable society.

Well, Ella, how did you set about ostracizing young Houghton?

What's the use of being an ostracized officer in the service?

There is always some Michael or Fritz who has been ostracized.

It demands that all people be alike or that they be ostracized.

No, let us everywhere put down treason and ostracize traitors.

Dress, living, servants, carriages, everything must conform, or we are ostracized.

If the conspiracy should be disclosed, she would be ostracized socially.

If you do this thing you will be ostracized by the world.

You can see the situation of the ostracized wife coming along beautifully.

Practically I am ostracized here by the class to which you belong.

Foreigners should be barred from citizenship and Catholics should be ostracized.

What mattered if he were a fugitive, if he were ostracized and despised?

He did not account himself "ostracized," nor wonder at this treatment.

Nothing was likely to happen to ostracize Wilfred from this group.

She is ostracized everywhere, and it means, if discovered, her social death.

As a consequence of this act he was ostracized by his people.

A Southern white man could become a Republican without being socially ostracized.

It was a country where men that had honest thoughts were ostracized.

At any rate she said she would have to ostracize me like the rest.

They took it as a public disgrace, and Poppy had been ostracized ever since.

He is an ostracized and despised creature, as hopelessly lost as a fallen star.

He was ostracized from the vigorous life of camp, an outsider, a lonely figure.

Are we criminals, and to be ostracized from society, for believing in the Bible?

She would have infinitely preferred it if she had been instantly ostracized and cut.

As a man who had been a leader among the aristocratic classes, he was ostracized.

Things would not be pleasant, but she could stand it, even if she were ostracized.

The young men who had committed the crime, found themselves ostracized on every hand.

For this he was ridiculed and even ostracized by the self-constituted judges of his day.

That was the pathos of it, that he was ostracized without really knowing the reason.

One young man had a machine up there, but found himself so ostracized he shipped it away.

He was not even ostracized from his own circle for his treatment to his girl wife.

To be laughed at, to be ostracized by the set he admired, was more than he could endure.