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How to use ostracism in a sentence

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He was brought up to fit comfortably into a patriarchal system, but risks ostracism to fight for his abandoned sister's rights.
The social ostracism extends to grounding the child or even making him go to bed early.
Many experience ostracism from their own families during formative years, with deep emotional scars resulting.
Punishment for breaching that limit can range from ostracism to court martial.
For Mike, bodybuilding was a way of dealing with hurtful childhood taunts and ostracism.
Soldiers and chaplains who tried to force religion on their comrades thus often faced ostracism.
At the same time, transgression of norms elicits punishment and ostracism from family, peers, partners, and the broader community.
But his voice softens as he describes how ostracism has become a way of life.
The traditions of boycotting and general ostracism were resurrected as weapons against the police.
Typically, schools rely on some form of exclusion or ostracism to control the behavior of students.
It would be a gesture of embargo, a concession to the politics of ostracism.
Interestingly, the youngsters have handled highbrow ostracism magnanimously, countering it with open arms and inclusiveness.
It rakes a great variety of forms, from ostracism to demands with menaces for money or other benefits.
Throughout Damascene society, broken promises brought shame, dishonor, and various forms of ostracism and censure.
The disaster scenarios prophesied in such reasonable arguments will range from everything from personal ostracism to nuclear obliteration.
Indeed, stepping over the party line on this subject can result in ostracism, opprobrium and banishment to career Siberias.
The threat of ostracism makes silence a powerful weapon in the war over moral values.
Young people with guns do not arouse the suspicions of the state police or incur social ostracism.
For almost a hundred years ostracism fulfilled its function of aborting serious civil unrest or even civil war.
He is afraid of the social ostracism that may well occur if he tells his family.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But the ostracism of the entire official class of the old South was growingly recognized as a grievance and a wrong.
This is ostracism, and ostracism, so to speak, is a physiological organ of democracy.
This law of ostracism is as dangerous in science as it was of old in politics.
Perchance, in time, Reynard may take up his abode with us, when vulpicide shall be punished by real ostracism.
For a Jugoslav girl to have been seen in company with an Italian sailor would have meant her social ostracism, if nothing worse.
So they banished him by ostracism, and he went to Argos to live.
Your club, Sir Philip, will do me honour by such an ostracism.
For to Sophia, ostracism had long since become a kind of second nature.
But is our moral condition the true reason of our ostracism?
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