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How to use beyond the pale in a sentence

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That's not deceiving voters, that's just politics, but letting the voters know what they are voting for is beyond the pale.
Manhattanites think New Englanders are beyond the pale, and New Englanders think New Yorkers are heretics.
Now that doesn't particularly surprise me anywhere north of Watford is beyond the pale for most of them.
So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale.
For many readers, this moment of unexpected sexual explicitness drives the general grittiness of Horace's satire beyond the pale of propriety.
It has helped establish a social norm in Britain, rendering the once acceptable racism of the 1970s beyond the pale today.
His excessive embrace of secularism leaves him altogether beyond the pale of acceptance.
And telling other people, particularly in print, what you have not told the players themselves is pretty much beyond the pale.
What was once ambassadorial now counts as beyond the pale, at least for anyone who moves in mainstream circles.
But second-best in the city of Milan proved beyond the pale.
Although we do at times confront poorly documented files in our work, this case went beyond the pale.
There is a fine line between standing up for your team-mates and indulging in serious foul play but Pratt insists his actions went beyond the pale.
Painting flush with the world: not the world beyond the pale, fixed in a frozen image, but the space and time of a gambol into the world.
Both of these of the collection of diseases have an effect on our country, on individuals and families, that is beyond the pale.
I'm old enough to remember when the yowling Bodyform ads were considered a bit beyond the pale.
The catastrophe we are responding to is terrorism and terrorism that went beyond the pale of anybody's understanding.
Still, at each stage of jazz history certain kinds of sounds were beyond the pale.
The practices carried out there in the name of Sharia law are beyond the pale of any society that calls itself civilised and humane.
I do not know how I could go to the constituents in Northumberland-Quinte West and tell them that it is not a good idea. It is beyond the pale.
But of course it is utterly beyond the pale for the European Commission to admit that Belgium is an obstacle both to Flanders and Wallonia.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When you crossed the summits of the dragoon Mountains you were beyond the pale.
Yet to cross through that roomful of sleeping warriors seemed almost equally beyond the pale of possibility.
I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct.
It seemed beyond the pale of wildest conjecture to suppose that the Hon.
Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.
But they'll want to dispel any notions that they can't play ball beyond the Pale.
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