Example Sentences

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Explaining decency is about as self-defeating as explaining a joke, but I’ll do it anyway: Excommunicating these exes now would send the message that you were nice to them only because you had to be.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

Excommunicating John Birchers, antisemites, and supporters of Ayn Rand’s hyper-individualism, Buckley forged the diverse strands of conservative thinking into a coherent ideology that eventually came to dominate American politics.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018

Joanna forms the subject of one of Rowlandson’s caricatures of 1814, Joanna Southcott, the Prophetess, Excommunicating the Bishops, published by Tegg on the 20th of September, 1814.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham