How to Use excommunicate in a Sentence

excommunicate

verb
Definition of excommunicatenext
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  • But that won’t be enough, of course, just as excommunicating all the bad guys won’t be enough.
    — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Cox was excommunicated by a vote of 22-12, but thank God, Charley was back in chains.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • She had been excommunicated by the Pope, and her country was shunned by the rest of Europe.
    — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
  • The one who took the worst beating was me, the death threats was me, excommunicated by Major League Baseball was me,’’ Canseco said.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
  • One by one, these men have been excommunicated from the Left.
    — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 28 July 2017
  • Afraid the church was going to excommunicate him, Jackson begged Landis to have the film destroyed.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • In 1521, the church declared Luther a heretic and excommunicated him.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And yet those are the ones that kind of are excommunicated forever.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 23 May 2018
  • The bishops who stayed and those who fled had excommunicated each other.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The church said Bratton is no longer a member, is no longer receiving a salary, and that he was excommunicated by the church the following Sunday, May 19.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2019
  • Hus’s preaching led in due course to papal bulls being sent to Prague excommunicating him.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But there are plenty of saints who have been excommunicated.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The bishops had accused the church of neglecting their region, and each side excommunicated the other.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The divorce did not fall in line with the church's beliefs, leaving Forrest excommunicated and banned from seeing his children.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 10 Feb. 2015
  • She was excommunicated, but her brother-in-law was not.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Woods and Bryson DeChambeau, who recently suggested that Woods had all but excommunicated him, will not have a reunion at the first tee.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Today many of these public figures act as if the sport is all better now that Landis and Armstrong have been excommunicated.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
  • Young, a 65-year-old lifelong Mormon, becomes the third high-profile member of the faith who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
    — Brady McCombs, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018
  • The Church has excommunicated people who disagree with this point.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
  • Spickler had run afoul of the organization some years before and had been excommunicated, so to speak.
    — Ron Miscavige, Esquire, 3 May 2016
  • However, since gaining her new title, she has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 6 Jan. 2015
  • If ousted, Young would become the third high-profile Mormon who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
    — Brady McCombs, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Last May, Kathy Griffin was unfairly excommunicated from the church of pop culture.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Her sister Margaret Toscano, who was also Paul Toscano’s wife, was excommunicated in 2000.
    — Benjamin Park, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Many, if not most, of those investors were Mennonites, and the religious community’s judgment has been swift: Three of the owners have been excommunicated.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • And yet, there the old man sits, hunched over in some lifeless, windowless palace of gaming or at a speaking engagement in Poughkeepsie, signing his name to baseballs, excommunicated.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Rushie, 35, accused the group of defamation and excommunicating him from the Fishtown community.
    — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The church should excommunicate these two leaders of an atheistic, communist state, signaling that the punishment might well be extended to the hereafter.
    — WSJ, 7 July 2022
  • Radkey, who left the LDS church in the mid-1970s and was later excommunicated after publicly criticizing it, was blocked from the part of the database that shows the baptisms until recently getting a login from a Mormon friend.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Jordyn will be excommunicated by the KarJenners and put on public trial by social media in the aftermath of one night out with Tristan Thompson.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019

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