Sentence examples for exile from inspiring English sources

"exile" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to the state of someone being barred from their native country, or being sent away, usually as a punishment. For example: "The politician was exiled from his home country for his political views."

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exile

noun

The state of being banished from one's home or country.

  • He lived in exile.

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Fear of retaliation and death threats from radical Islamists have forced some cartoonists into exile, according to the report, Drawing the line: cartoonists under threat.

Related: Edward Snowden says Australia's new data retention laws are 'dangerous' The Conservative manifesto had promised to strengthen the state's powers of surveillance, despite opposition to the already considerable powers revealed by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor now living in exile in Russia.

Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958, though under threat of arrest or exile he could not collect it.

For Cubans, the terrorism list was a particularly charged issue because of the US history of supporting exile groups responsible for attacks on the island, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger flight from Barbados that killed 73 passengers.

It is the first time Nadir has taken the stand since he voluntarily returned from exile in his native Northern Cyprus in 2010.

"Remember," said Cicero to Marcellus in exile, "wherever you are, you are equally within the power of the conqueror".

Lucie was even prepared to abandon their children to join him in exile, her most intimate letters reveal.

Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse.

Asked how he feels about a documentary bringing the little-known story of the Guugu Yimithirr's exile to a wider audience, McIvor replies: "It's people really wanting to pass on memories, it's good that you pass on the story to younger people".

Although Daphrose managed to escape being murdered she was raped on her way into exile and only years later discovered she had contracted HIV.

· Dissidents are sent into internal exile, forced out of their homes or detained in psychiatric hospitals.

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