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Example sentences for: exile
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William Lyon Mackenzie, a Dundee-born Scot, lived here after his return from exile for leading a revolt in 1837 (see page 20).
The dictator fell in 1929, and when the elections of 1931 revealed massive anti-royalist feeling in Spain’s cities, the king followed him into exile.
Finally, the last of the proud Mughals, the Emperor Bahadur Shah, was condemned to exile in Burma.
In 1931 the king himself went into exile following anti-royalist election results, and another republic was founded.
It's the "Diaspora chic" Eric Liu described earlier in Slate: the recent tendency of American minorities to think of themselves as communities in exile, a component of the greater national obsession with finding one's roots.