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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:

The union that makes contracts or participates in collective bargaining is to be ostracized.

Wagner was exiled and Morris merely "cautioned," placed under police surveillance and ostracized.

One Indian cannot refuse another anything (especially as they are all relations) without being ostracized.

The entire family is as completely ostracized as though they had been convicted of an infamous crime.

We began to suspect that we were being ostracized, when our hostess came up and collected us.

Plant's men were ostracized in every way, once they showed themselves obstinate in holding to their positions.

He no more delighted in being ridiculed and ostracized than you and I would delight in these things.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Men who deceive men, who break with them contracts made only by word, are ostracized from society.

You saw them always in the good restaurants, but never in the company of Belgians, these ostracized rulers.

You've made us both ridiculous in the eyes of the world, and we shall be more severely ostracized than ever.

Although she may have been more sinned against than sinning, she is cast out and ostracized by society.

A man may steal from government with impunity, who would be socially ostracized for cheating his neighbor.

Finding himself partly ostracized, he kept to the water front, spending his days and nights down there.

At this time, the father is ostracized and the mother and her young live together in the lodge.

She was with three young men, but they sat away from her pointedly, as if she were ostracized.

Now he was ostracized, society cared no longer what he did, his position was gone, his reputation was destroyed.

The brilliant men, unless they happen to be very 'smooth' in the bargain, are considered wet and are ostracized.

Nothing that Dent's Tour could do in the way of ostracizing would have been able to pierce through to his consciousness.

They were ostracized and misused because we had gone off and joined the rebels, and life became a burden to them.

For a man to be ostracized by the crowd forward is a living hell, as has been proven on other voyages.

Their husbands and children refused to be seen with them in public, and they were wholly ostracized by other women.

She was not excluded, but she was not welcome; she was not ostracized, but she had lost consideration.

"We couldn't ostracize her simply because she has got a divorce and married again, for there are so many others."

The lady hesitated quite awhile, thinking it would be too great a sacrifice to be socially ostracized by her own race.

He had driven Mel from his mind by bitter reflection on the conduct of the people who had ostracized her.

As to society, it is to be said that in the Fifties Charles Sumner, a Senator, was ostracized for his opinions upon slavery.

They recognize that they are forever ostracized from the fellowship of their kind, and make no attempt to join other elephants.

Kate had hesitated, dreading to expose her children for the second time unprotected to the mercies of people who had ostracized her.

Only a few years ago all literary men were ostracized because they had no money; neither did they have a reading public.

I had a medical friend who wrote a volume of excellent advice to mothers, and his profession almost ostracized him for it.

McGregor might have rested on her all her days, and she and her entire family been completely ostracized by the neighborhood.

Personal criticism of the boss, ostracizing him from the better sort of society, does not help matters, does not harm him.

Their code required social action such as ostracizing a man of the craft who was living in adultery until he mended his ways.

He had walked in the shadow of death and had been deprived of office; ostracized like Aristides because he was "too just a man."

He was brilliant as a soldier, gained important victories against Persia, but was finally ostracized as a result of his friendship for Sparta.

The Athenians therefore rose up against him in anger, ostracized him, and drove him out of the country to end his life in exile.

Were they, by any chance, to begin a discussion of history he would feel himself ostracized and would leave them to their own devices.

Her intimate connection with Godwin had been very generally understood, but not absolutely known, and hence it had not ostracized her socially.

"Daniel, a woman in these days who 'obeys' her husband ought to be ostracized, or arrested and confined in an institution for dangerous lunatics!"

In the presence of her emotional tolerance, which found excuses for everything and ostracized nobody, his sense of propriety seemed a lack of social charity.

Did we love them because, from being hunted by our kind, and ostracized from communities of men, we had come to regard them as our homes?

My dear Henry, if you are thinking of setting up in the ostracizing business I can supply you with a long list of far more deserving cases.

"Yes, in the main, papa, but to be frank, I don't enjoy this ostracizing business, and I hope I won't have any more of it to do."

He is also ostracized as regards any business he may follow, and the sacrifice he is forced to undergo seems almost too great for human endurance.

In those days we did not look down upon a girl and try to ostracize her from our social life if she was forced to be a servant.

By teaching in this family she would be socially ostracized by the white people of the country, and that hers would be a life of seclusion.

When we pulled away, the ostracized New Yorker bade us farewell with a snatch of a song once more or less popular: "Give my regards to Broadway!"

We have been ostracized and abused, and often our husbands have been brutally murdered, in a number of instances when they were faithful to the dear old flag.

He saw himself scorned and ostracized by the whole college, and, for a fleeting moment, he thought of leaving New Haven forever that very night.

Therefore, being greatly concerned about what his neighbor thought of him, no one would have dared be friendly to the ostracized couple even if he had the disposition.

It was one of these who was found to be trading in and selling his packages to his less fortunate comrades and who was ostracized in consequence.

And now that all your trouble is over, perhaps you will sometimes find it hard not to feel angry with those who ostracized you for so long.

Something worse than eating with his knife must ostracize a man, and something no greater than spitting on the sidewalk should accomplish the feat at one fell stroke.

I hope we did him no injustice in this for never after could I bring myself to enter his house, and he was clearly ostracized by all the neighbors.

The former was only suited to a condition of perpetual bondage, the latter to be ostracized and driven out from before the face of the exclusive Protestants of that period.

Ultimately Lady Grant was able to confront the familiar mention of persons ostracized and implications outrageous with that patience women know how to draw upon in dealing with their sick.

Five minutes later, when the assembled company was seated at supper, the unruly and ostracized pair walked solemnly in and stood for a moment at the head of the room.

For himself the Colonel felt that he was eternally disgraced and had reached the point where he was willing to be ostracized but hoped to protect the family name.

Among his people, the white folk, though he was not ostracized for having taken a native wife (for it is common enough), still it did lower one in the social scale.

Weeks rolled by without further public attacks upon Gran'pa Jim, but among the girls at the school suspicion had crept in to ostracize Mary Louise from the general confidence.

Whitman was ostracized for many years not because of his life, which was regular and admirable enough, but because of his verse, which is exceedingly irregular in more than one respect.

Dorothy must love the man she marries, with all her heart and soul; and you can readily understand, ostracized as we are, how difficult it has been to find such a one.

The family was promptly ostracized; but by driving off her husband with his elephants, the wife might avoid expulsion, and might save for herself and her daughters the comfortable home.

He stumped his umbrella on the ground, as though to drive it into the heart of that unfortunate body, which had dared to ostracize his son and his son's son, in whom he could have lived again!