All 7 Uses of
exile
in
I Am Malala
- But when you are exiled from your homeland, where your fathers and forefathers were born and where you have centuries of history, it's very painful.
p. xvii.0 *exiled = forced to leave (one's homeland)
- Sharif was accused of treason and only saved by his friends in the Saudi royal family, who arranged his exile.
p. 75.8exile = requirement to leave one's homeland
- In 2002 Musharraf held elections for "controlled democracy" They were strange elections, as the main party leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir were in exile.
p. 96.6exile = forced to live outside of their homeland
- Benazir had been in exile since I was two years old, but I had heard so much about her from my father and was very excited that she would return and we might have a woman leader once more.
p. 129.3exile = living outside one's homeland due to necessity
- On 18 October 2007 we were all glued to the TV as she walked down the steps of the plane in Karachi and wept as she stepped onto Pakistani soil after almost nine years in exile.
p. 129.8
- General Musharraf was in exile in London.
p. 163.7
- The mohajirs almost all support a party called the MQM led by Altaf Hussain, who lives in exile in London and communicates with his people by Skype.
p. 220.5
Definition:
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be