How do you use Ostracize in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ostracise or exclude, plus the exact meaning.
Ostracize meaning
- To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
Synonyms of Ostracize
Using Ostracize
- The main meaning on this page is: To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. | To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- Useful related words include: ostracise, shut out, keep out, exclude.
- In the example corpus, ostracize often appears in combinations such as: to ostracize, ostracize the.
Context around Ostracize
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ostracize
- In this selection, "ostracize" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, parcell, may, children, female, china and censor stand out and add context to how "ostracize" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allowed to ostracize the world and begin to ostracize yourself from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ostracize" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ostracize
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With time you begin to ostracize yourself from your friends and your circle becomes smaller. (15 words)
The local children ostracize her because her father was a thief and a wife-beater. (15 words)
Foolish companies who ostracize a large portion of their consumers when there are plenty of other companies with the same product. (21 words)
At the moment – in light of the reasonably successful efforts of Seoul and Washington to maintain close coordination despite significant differences over North Korea policy – it serves North Korea’s purposes to ostracize the South. (35 words)
Israel must not be allowed to ostracize the world’s most ancient Christian community from their ancestral land so that it may score a few points in its deeply disturbing drive for racial supremacy. (34 words)
Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. (33 words)
Example sentences (13)
At conferences and official N.A.R. gatherings, she said, she saw Mr. Parcell ostracize female Realtors who failed to flatter him — behavior he did not repeat with men.
Foolish companies who ostracize a large portion of their consumers when there are plenty of other companies with the same product.
Unfortunately, many international players do not share commonality, and either out of ignorance or prejudice, they ostracize China during its period of trial and tribulation.
At the moment – in light of the reasonably successful efforts of Seoul and Washington to maintain close coordination despite significant differences over North Korea policy – it serves North Korea’s purposes to ostracize the South.
Israel must not be allowed to ostracize the world’s most ancient Christian community from their ancestral land so that it may score a few points in its deeply disturbing drive for racial supremacy.
Indeed, Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out orthodox Christianity from a university that was founded to train ministers in the Puritan tradition.
The UN, international organizations and stakeholders may ostracize the government because this callous behaviour by President Bio’s men, contravenes civility and the Geneva Convention on the treatment of diplomats.
What used to ostracize Korean Americans has now become trendy, which is annoying in some ways, but exciting that the western world is finally appreciating Korean food.
With time you begin to ostracize yourself from your friends and your circle becomes smaller.
In 442 BC, the Athenian public voted to ostracize Thucydides from the city for 10 years and Pericles was once again the unchallenged ruler of the Athenian political arena.
The local children ostracize her because her father was a thief and a wife-beater.
Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights.
Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths.
Common combinations with ostracize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to ostracize 6×
- ostracize the 3×