excommunicate

Example Sentences

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Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.

From Barron's

Closing the debate, Ms Armstrong said that since she first proposed the bill she had faced "allegations of being sectarian, threatened to be excommunicated from the church by some principals".

From BBC

Conversely, Catholic schools were among the first to desegregate and some government officials who opposed racial integration were excommunicated.

From Seattle Times

As punishment for her failure to show fealty to Trump, Cheney has been stripped of her leadership role in the House GOP caucus and excommunicated from the Wyoming Republican Party.

From Seattle Times

“We don’t have two parties anymore. We have a party and a cult, and in a cult, the fear of being excommunicated or shunned is overwhelming,” he said.

From New York Times