ostracism

How To Use ostracism In A Sentence

• It would be a gesture of embargo, a concession to the politics of ostracism.
• At the same time, transgression of norms (getting pregnant) elicits punishment and ostracism from family, peers, partners, and the broader community.
• Women become pregnant very young, recieve insufficient nutrition, and as a result they endure protracted labor resulting in stillborn babies -- and injuries that result in eventual incontinence, social ostracism, and heartbreak. Mwahahahahahaha!
• The traditions of boycotting and general ostracism were resurrected as weapons against the police.
• In an article in the Daily Telegraph, he describes the public reaction to his remarks as "hysterical", and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is "punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me". David Starkey defends Newsnight comment
• And yet the number is steadily increasing who quietly undertake herculean tasks for their fellow-men, knowing that they will be neither appreciated nor understood, but, instead, will have to suffer social ostracism, which is sometimes quite as hard to endure as physical martyrdom. The Ascent of the Soul
• She adds, "Many students do not speak out for fear of ostracism or retribution."
• There were sidelights too, upon the thoughts and emotions that might have stirred up Shylock to act as he did towards those whom he felt had forced him to suffer ostracism and humiliation.
• It rakes a great variety of forms, from ostracism to demands with menaces for money or other benefits.
• Today such ostracism seems incomprehensible.