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exile - use in sentences
Converse of object
- enforce: Even worse was that we were expected to believe that his enforced exile would be English cricket's loss.
- prefer: As Thomas Walker pointed out, the leaders of the Manchester Constitutional Society " preferred a voluntary exile to imprisonment.
Object
- journalist: At the party is Philip Kaufman, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist exiled from the US in the McCarthy witchhunts.
- revolutionary: Marx and Engels, along with many other exiled revolutionaries, decided to return to Germany once the revolution had broken out.
- leader: In Zambia he moved in with his uncle, one of the exiled leaders of the South African freedom struggle.
Adjective modifier
- self-imposed: He led Russia from its self-imposed exile to become one of the strongest national sides in Europe.
- Cuban: Two days later five merchant ships carrying 1,400 Cuban exiles arrived at the Bay of Pigs.
- Iraqi: I know, having spoken to many Iraqi exiles, of their wish to return home.
- Chilean: The award was given to a representative group of those who had worked in solidarity with Chilean exiles in the UK.
- Protestant: These were Protestant exiles in the 17th century from the land that became Northern Ireland in the 20th century.
Preposition: on
- continent: James and Mary went into exile on the continent and had a daughter, Louise.
Noun used with modifier
- tax: But while the tax exile may be welcome, the real wealth creators of Britain have suffered.
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