coventry
Example Sentences
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"Are the fellows trying to send us to coventry?" demanded Dodge.
From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
One of Marion's modes of getting rid of worthless officers, was to put them into coventry.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
But I've heard mutterings to the effect that your class will send you to coventry for excessive zeal in greasing, to the detriment of your classmates.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
She had received signs of what might lead to partial coventry on the part of a number of upper class students.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester
They were being put in coventry and the diabolical mind that was thus taking its fiendish revenge could be none other than the man he had wronged—Hickey Hicks.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
