exile

Example Sentences

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How Tereza’s exile helps her countrymen isn’t quite clear, but I suspect it starts with giving someone younger her house and her job.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"We know every stage of its history, from Napoleon's exile on Saint Helena right up to the present day."

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Pitino was there because it was coaching, and it was interesting, but he was mostly there because he was in exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

But he lived abroad from the 1960s until 1999, mainly writing and teaching in France and Spain, before ending what he called his "voluntary exile" and returning to Peru.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

But this would mean exile, a flight from danger into danger, drawing it after me.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien