Example sentences for: exiles

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

  • Among the political exiles flocking to Piedmont was a veteran of the earlier revolts, Giuseppe Garibaldi.

  • The NYT says the death of Nigeria's Abacha, whose five-year reign was marked by his brutal suppression of political opponents and who had no designated successor, initially prompted hopes among Nigerian political exiles and some world leaders that Nigeria, which had a flourishing democracy briefly in the early 1980s, might restore civilian government.

  • In the 1960s, the CIA suffered exposure of its botched effort to land Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.

  • Rothchild wrote that the "external threat" to Jordan does not seem especially grave at the moment, though there is the risk of Iraqi subversion with so many Iraqi exiles on Jordanian soil and at its borders.

  • For centuries, the Sephardic Jewish neighborhoods of cities from Tangier, Fez, and Amsterdam to Salonika, Istanbul, and Aleppo echoed with Ladino, a 15th-century Castilian dialect (sprinkled with Hebrew words) spoken by the Spanish exiles wherever they settled.


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