Example Sentences

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Irish Spring soap makes its Super Bowl debut with a spot that posits a world in which Irish people in cable-knit sweaters will ostracize you if you smell bad.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2022

They would have told me, ‘You will be ruined. You will never be seen by the mainstream again – they will ostracize you.’

From Fox News • Jun. 17, 2021

Those who are will treat me as become gentlemen, as they do, and those who are not I will thank if they will "ostracize" me, for if they don't I will certainly "ostracize" them.

From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Flipper, Henry Ossian

"This connection will ostracize them both," his wife said.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin