Sentence examples for were ostracized from inspiring English sources
verb
To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing to acknowledge (their) presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun.
"We were ostracized and maligned," he said.
They were ostracized by both their families.
The children were ostracized and targeted.
Those who questioned the New Era gospel were ostracized as knaves or fools.
The handful of community members who spoke up to protest the dump were ostracized into silence.
"Some people were ostracized by their families or simply had nowhere to go for the holidays.
The thousands of children left behind by American soldiers visiting from Vietnam were ostracized and publicly ridiculed.
In the old Italian ghettos, Jews, who were ostracized by authorities, created their own tightly organized communities.
Soon afterward, The Buffalo Evening News labeled him "Buffalo's Number One Red," and he and his family were ostracized.
The Brotherhood occupied the space in American strategic thinking now taken by the Salafis — radical Islamists — with the difference that they were ostracized.
After Hipparchus, four more men, the last of them being Aristides, were ostracized before the amnesty in 481, preceding the invasion of Xerxes I.
