How to Use ostracism in a Sentence

ostracism

noun
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  • The platforms weren't used to spread the calls for the boycotts but rather were the targets of the public ostracism.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But the result could still be ostracism at school or work.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The anti-Trumpers are calling for purges and ostracism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Qian led China’s effort to end its ostracism by the West.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Faced with her own looming ostracism in a school that sometimes feels more like a prison, what is Nora to do?
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • What the men didn’t know was that Williams was a social scientist who’d been looking for a way to study ostracism.
    — Will Storr, The Cut, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Ukraine deserves more support to raise the costs of war for Mr. Putin with arms, the toughest sanctions, and global ostracism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Its laws were strict, and sentences carried out in its name could include death or ostracism.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Because her daughter was biracial, Greve faced ostracism and was forced out of her apartment in New York.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • The court papers paint a picture of how ostracism in a police department works.
    — Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • After his ostracism by Trump and the Mercers, Bannon seemed eager to return to Trump’s good graces.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Yet there is seemingly little or no ostracism of the Russian skaters here.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Yet rarely do Western activist groups call for global ostracism of Iran.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 30 Jan. 2020
  • But regardless of the reason for the silent treatment, it can be received by victims as ostracism.
    — Daryl Austin, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
  • No matter how Sacco felt, her ostracism was an established fact, a thing that happened to her.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • At most, such people now faced suspicion and ostracism.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • And what can be done to purge the conformism that deters complaints about toxic colleagues, for fear of ostracism or career setbacks?
    — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Leprosy is also not very contagious, despite what the severe stigma and ostracism of the past may have led you to believe.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Boudin’s claims also failed due to the willingness of high profile Democrats to break ranks and risk political ostracism.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • His show at the Garden was a non-stop party that showed the world that the ostracism and exclusion of dembow is woefully outdated.
    — Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2021
  • No player has been threatened with ostracism or censure.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • This ostracism, this otherness, is among the most distressing feelings that can be felt by our social species.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
  • It’s unclear if other nations have the appetite to push back against Iran in a years-long campaign, or how Tehran might respond to such sustained ostracism.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 24 June 2019
  • Boycott's attempt in 1880 to evict tenants following a year of bad harvest was met with protests and then social ostracism.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • After several years of ostracism, Díaz-Balart returned to public life but with a low profile.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Many albinos face threats from organ and limb harvesters, and wider ostracism is also a problem.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • Bezos was born in 1964 New Mexico to a teenage mother, who faced ostracism for her pregnancy.
    — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 2 May 2018
  • The angry voices calling for Hedy Weiss' ostracism from Chicago's theater scene echo a melodrama that played in Athens 2,509 years ago.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • The liberty to march to your own drummer without ostracism or molestation is in peril.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
  • For many, that equates to the right of the Jewish people to have their own state and self-determination in an ancestral homeland after centuries of oppression and ostracism in much of the world.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024

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