How to Use exile in a Sentence

exile

1 of 2 noun
  • They hoped that his exile would be temporary.
  • Many chose to live as exiles rather than face persecution.
  • Cicero spent over a year in exile there.
    — Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Who was sent to an exile island?
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe the Deep goes down or maybe his exile from the sea is enough.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Their collective life is a kind of gift, and a kind of exile.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Its members would seek amnesty or leave Gaza for exile abroad.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This exile would have been a deep and lifelong injury to her heart.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
  • There are children to feed and schools and doctors to find while in exile.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
  • And, just as Hugo was heard best from exile, so was de Gaulle.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Those who weren’t dismissed were jailed or forced into exile.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 3 Jan. 2026
  • This marked the beginning of my odyssey, which many have called exile.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Many of those who fled into exile don’t even know where their children or loved ones are.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Hao might have been packing for a life of exile or a futile trip to the airport.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Some observers think his exile was part of a deal with the government.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Of all the exile groups, the Poles seem to have been the most popular.
    — National Geographic, 4 June 2017
  • Most of the rest are in exile, either abroad or in foreign embassies.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Many were still out there in exile waiting for their moment of return.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Thaksin was found guilty of the charges in absentia during his exile.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Still, exile was beginning to be a whisper in our minds.
    — Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the film, Elphaba is now in exile.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the group’s members have either been jailed or forced into exile.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Once among Egypt’s elite, Mo was left to start nearly from scratch in exile.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Pahlavi, 65, has been in exile for nearly 50 years.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • His family was living in exile in Italy at the time of his birth.
    — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • The news has ushered in a bold new era of hope for the tens of thousands of Aussies still in exile.
    — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora, of loss.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Pete Rose has paid for his mistakes with a too long exile from the Hall.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The sons of Cuban exiles in Miami got their shot.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026

exile

2 of 2 verb
  • In the snack shop opened by a widow who was once exiled by the gangs.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The children are not exiled to their own wing, out of sight and out of mind.
    — Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015
  • Most of them have been jailed or exiled or arrested or even killed.
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In this predicament, exiled from home and hiding in plain sight.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • Both agreed to be exiled, yet both still languish behind bars.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • To be exiled from a group or to see our group crushed by its enemies, could mean death.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
  • Sort of a contrast from the way Chris Paul was exiled.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The person with the most votes was exiled from Athens for 10 years.
    — Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
  • But in all those years no alderman's been exiled from his own brood—until now.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018
  • She was released upon agreeing to exile from the state, but still faces charges.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 June 2021
  • Jonathan Kuminga, the man exiled to the end of the bench for more than a month, erupted.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And some of those doctors who were detected were confined or exiled.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
  • Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • In response to both, the United States forcibly exiled all gay men to the moon.
    — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
  • Even when convicted or exiled, coup plotters may be later freed.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even when convicted or exiled, coup plotters may be later freed.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • As a young man, the future king grew up exiled in a realm overrun by menacing demons and monsters.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • But then this played out beautifully with him being sent to exile in Italy to live in his shame.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 10 June 2022
  • And the story keeps moving, as Dante is exiled from Florence.
    — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • She would be exiled with him within the walls of her childhood home, and this exile would start tomorrow or the next day.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Caputo’s former client fled Putin and now is exiled in Germany.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Thus 52 percent of the electorate was neatly exiled to beyond the pale.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The couple was exiled and moved to France, where the Duke died in 1972.
    — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Lucifer is a fallen angel who was exiled from Heaven and sent to rule Hell.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Now legions of bright-eyed radical youths were exiled to the countryside to learn from the peasants.
    — Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The kitchen had so many of her refrigerator magnets that dozens were exiled to the back of the door leading to the garage.
    — Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, it was exiled after one season because of poor ratings.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • She was exiled to a distant mission and married to a Spanish soldier.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Per has, in effect, been exiled from Eden, for the Adamic sin of stealing apples.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018

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