coventry
Example Sentences
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Confidence was universal, and the man who raised a warning voice found himself figuratively "sent to coventry."
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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
"I eats them," said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upward, were visible.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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
I don't intend Miss Briggs shall leave college, or be sent to coventry either.
From Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
