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Definition
to force someone to live outside of their home country; or living in such a conditionor more rarely: voluntary absence from one's own country
- She fled Tibet and is living in exile in India.
exile = having to live outside one's home country
- Even in his first year in exile he had begun to plan for his return.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- And for that offence
Immediately we do exile him hence.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - The Orders-in-Council provide for the exile of Canadian citizens.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- And sayest thou yet that exile is not death!William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
What further woe conspires against mine age?William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - The law, that threaten'd death, becomes thy friend,
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Ha, banishment? be merciful, say death;
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death; do not say banishment.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,
And world's exile is death,—then banished
Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,
Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
And smil'st upon the stroke that murders me.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!George Orwell -- 1984
- It wasn't enough just to exile me, was it?Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- CYRANO: I tell you, it is there, There, that they send me for my Paradise, There I shall find at last the souls I love, In exile,—Galileo—Socrates!Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- When, taken with mad Folly in his own land, a man does murder and in exile finds refuge in some rich house, then all who see him stand in awe.Homer -- The Iliad
- Miss Stuart was in exile, from plundered Scotland still declining, three thousand miles away.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- A carriage was hastily ordered; and, closely veiled, I followed Mrs. Bruce, taking the baby again with me into exile.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- He was told that it was believed that the former sergeant, hunted, exiled and in despair, had stabbed himself to death.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- And they saw other Cadis, Pashas, and Effendis coming to supply the place of the exiles, and afterwards exiled in their turn.Voltaire -- Candide
- If inner peace is the true objective, would I win it in exile?Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- Mary moved to the south of France for four years, living in exile in the town of Pau before returning to Springfield.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
exile = being forced to live outside of his home country
exile = expel (force to live elsewhere)
exile = forcing someone to live outside of their home country
exile = being forced to live elsewhere
exile = being forced to live elsewhere
exile = being forced to live elsewhere
exile = being forced to live elsewhere
exile = forced to live elsewhere