Example sentences for: exile

How can you use “exile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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