How to Use exclude in a Sentence

exclude

verb
Definition of excludenext
Synonyms for excludenext
  • The prices on the menu exclude tax.
  • You can share files with some people on the network while excluding others.
  • Jews could set foot in the Old City, from which they had been excluded.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That is a city that starts out by design to exclude poverty.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Matthews also excluded from the dad's trial a text the shooter sent his friend at 8:21 a.m. on the day of the shooting.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Will Pluma exclude any of the songs that may have sparked his recent controversies?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The move to exclude fossil-fuel investments was made in 2021.
    — Saijel Kishan, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The nation and states often exclude women who have stillbirths from paid leave.
    — Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • To determine the height of the ceiling fan, measure from the top of the motor housing to the bottom of the light fixture, excluding the downrod.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
  • Charleston County, as of Tuesday evening, was excluded from the watch.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In his arguments Wednesday, Thug’s lawyer Steel echoed such concerns in pushing to exclude the lyrics from the case.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
  • His attorneys say he was excluded as a possible source of DNA swabbed from the gun.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
  • The spokesperson added that customers typically ask about how to bring fairs to their schools, not how to exclude titles.
    — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That’s more than three times the number of strikes in 2022, according to the agency’s data, which excludes a lot of strikes at smaller workplaces.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Ford was excluded at the time due to substantial progress at the bargaining table.
    — William Kim, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • He has been excluded from the mainstream school system due to a long and sustained pattern of delinquency and now resides at the Last Chance school.
    — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • Fink and Mao looked at knots with only flat surfaces, which excluded more complex creations like the Eldredge and the Merovingian.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The archive, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Those numbers exclude the city of Fishers, which has its own health department.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, eased to 5.3%, from 5.5% in July.
    — Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One suggestion was to describe an incident in which the writer had felt excluded from a group.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Amazon has excluded marijuana from such tests for the past two years.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • Their arrival sparked a long overdue shift in the racial dynamics of a state that at its founding legally excluded Black people.
    — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 30 May 2023
  • Victims’ lawyers argue that if Congress wanted to exclude payments for distress or hardship, the law would say so.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Keep in mind that bundles, on-sale items, and a handful of models are excluded from the promotion, so be sure the coupon applies to your top picks before checking out.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • But Google was missing a big section of Gen Z by excluding teens from its technology.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • That's at least in part because the FBI numbers exclude killings that are ruled justified by prosecutors.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2023
  • On the heels of the Colorado ruling, the secretary of state in Maine determined that Trump is barred from holding office and should be excluded from the primary ballot.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Readers Respond The previous question was from a reader who was concerned her son was excluding a boy from his friend group.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • By contrast, goods excluding food and energy rose just 0.2%.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024

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