How to Use excommunicate in a Sentence

excommunicate

verb
  • But that won’t be enough, of course, just as excommunicating all the bad guys won’t be enough.
    — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • One by one, these men have been excommunicated from the Left.
    — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 28 July 2017
  • And yet those are the ones that kind of are excommunicated forever.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 23 May 2018
  • The bishops who stayed and those who fled had excommunicated each other.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • She had been excommunicated by the Pope, and her country was shunned by the rest of Europe.
    — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
  • Hus’s preaching led in due course to papal bulls being sent to Prague excommunicating him.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The Church has excommunicated people who disagree with this point.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
  • Cox was excommunicated by a vote of 22-12, but thank God, Charley was back in chains.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • Afraid the church was going to excommunicate him, Jackson begged Landis to have the film destroyed.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Spickler had run afoul of the organization some years before and had been excommunicated, so to speak.
    — Ron Miscavige, Esquire, 3 May 2016
  • The bishops had accused the church of neglecting their region, and each side excommunicated the other.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Many of those on the list were members of Table Rock Church, which had excommunicated the couple.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Michael Goldade, one of the new bishops the Vatican excommunicated, grew up there.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • In 1521, the church declared Luther a heretic and excommunicated him.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The divorce did not fall in line with the church's beliefs, leaving Forrest excommunicated and banned from seeing his children.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 10 Feb. 2015
  • Because of that, my daughter has been excommunicated from the entire family.
    — cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
  • However, since gaining her new title, she has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 6 Jan. 2015
  • Today many of these public figures act as if the sport is all better now that Landis and Armstrong have been excommunicated.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
  • Six bishops and hundreds of priests belonging to the society have been excommunicated.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 2 July 2026
  • Are family members from the opposite side of the political aisle now to be excommunicated?
    — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The one who took the worst beating was me, the death threats was me, excommunicated by Major League Baseball was me,’’ Canseco said.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
  • If ousted, Young would become the third high-profile Mormon who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
    — Brady McCombs, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Last May, Kathy Griffin was unfairly excommunicated from the church of pop culture.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The church should excommunicate these two leaders of an atheistic, communist state, signaling that the punishment might well be extended to the hereafter.
    — WSJ, 7 July 2022
  • The Harmses had been excommunicated from the church, and a current and a former church leader obtained protection orders, Bleazard said.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Vatican promptly excommunicated Lefebvre and the four other bishops, and the group today still has no legal status in the church.
    — ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Young, a 65-year-old lifelong Mormon, becomes the third high-profile member of the faith who led protests about church policy to be excommunicated in recent years.
    — Brady McCombs, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Woods and Bryson DeChambeau, who recently suggested that Woods had all but excommunicated him, will not have a reunion at the first tee.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And yet, there the old man sits, hunched over in some lifeless, windowless palace of gaming or at a speaking engagement in Poughkeepsie, signing his name to baseballs, excommunicated.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Rushie, 35, accused the group of defamation and excommunicating him from the Fishtown community.
    — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017

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