How to Use ostracize in a Sentence

ostracize

verb
Definition of ostracizenext
Synonyms for ostracizenext
  • The other girls ostracized her because of the way she dressed.
  • She was ostracized from the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs.
  • What were the responses of the adults in your life when you were ostracized?
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The thing about sellouts is that they are ostracized and shunned by their people.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The men had already been ostracized, and the pressure on them was enormous.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Many of them feel ostracized on their campus for their beliefs.
    — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Marinari agrees that there is a sense of ostracizing moms who don’t drink from those who do.
    — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Adding the label of witch, zhu, would surely ostracize their family from the rest of the village.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • Their children were ostracized and mocked for being the children of garbagemen.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Children borne of rape grow up ostracized, with less access to civil rights.
    — Alice Su, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Cast members switch teams, ostracize each other, and stab one another in the back again and again.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And that makes femmes feel both invisible and ostracized.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Many of the patients had been ostracized from their families and lost their jobs—everything in their life was gone.
    — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • Her mother was ostracized for getting pregnant; her father was killed the day she was born.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • He and teammate Tommie Smith were ostracized and ridiculed for the gesture.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Surely your bosses did not want a goodbye lunch to make a new employee feel ostracized.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Backers say he shouldn't be ostracized for something that happened so long ago.
    — Michael Tarm, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • Once ostracized and called a witch, she is now considered prophetic and gifted, and the people in her town flock to her for good luck.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Our goal of this package is not to ostracize, separate, or add to the maelstrom of click-bait on the internet.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Among the early adopters of this vision were those who had been ostracized from their professional circles.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • On top of being ostracized from his classmates, he was constantly bullied and had nobody to turn to.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Men like Liteky are people who should force us to pause and think; they should not be ostracized and criticized.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
  • She felt ostracized as a result and briefly considered suicide.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Sep. 2019
  • As the happy, purposeful crowd pushes into school, the bully is left to gape and blush, alone and ostracized.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • They may be pressured to recant their story or ostracized by their social circle.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2018
  • Then Qatar was ostracized, so the project was expedited.
    — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 12 June 2017
  • We do get ostracized by our own brothers, and yes, especially by white gay men.
    — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 22 June 2018
  • Or does one chastise and ostracize golfers for selling out to a tour where the financial backing for their events comes from a country with an abysmal human rights record?
    — Patrick Rishe, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Here are four reasons why little is being done to further ostracize Greene.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • Some tried suicide, others were ostracized by their family and friends.
    — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2019

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