EXCLUSION in a Sentence

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Edmund did not wonder that such should be his father's feelings, nor could he regret anything but the exclusion of the Grants.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCLUSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exclusion
 n.  rejection; act of excluding or shutting out
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  By the method of exclusion, I had arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis would meet the facts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
2  Edmund did not wonder that such should be his father's feelings, nor could he regret anything but the exclusion of the Grants.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  You see we have already arrived, by a process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an American.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
4  The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card-gains.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
5  So, by the process of exclusion, we arrive at the fact that he made his way toward Charlington Hall, which, as I understand, is situated in its own grounds on one side of the road.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6  Blockaders were commissioned to bring in necessities but now it was the higher-priced luxuries that filled their boats to the exclusion of the things the Confederacy vitally needed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  Indignation and despair had claimed her to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
8  Indeed, count," said Morcerf, "I thank you sincerely for having used so much candor towards me, and I gratefully accept the exclusion which you propose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks.
9  As she was a womanly little woman, the maternal instinct was very strong, and she was entirely absorbed in her children, to the utter exclusion of everything and everybody else.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
10  The sudden exclusion of the night, and the substitution of black darkness in its place, warned me that the man had closed a shutter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
11  He read without understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all else.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
12  the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
13  In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  The apartment into which Duncan and his guide first entered, had been exclusively devoted to her accommodation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  I must have something that I can term exclusively my own by this foray of ours, and I have fixed on the lovely Jewess as my peculiar prize.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  Our figure skating club has exclusive use of the rink on Mondays.
17  It was a tremendous coup for the local paper to get an exclusive interview with Prince Charles.
18  His mother has told 'The Times' about his death in an exclusive interview.
19  The interview is exclusive to this magazine.
20  The recording deal is not necessarily exclusive.
21  The newspaper published an exclusive about the escape.
22  He is part of an exclusive social circle and belongs to an exclusive club.
23  He attended Eton, the most exclusive private school in Britain.
24  We were granted the exclusive rights to produce the software in the UK.
25  They had exclusive possession of the property as tenants.
26  The senate committees have exclusive jurisdiction over the FBI.
27  The commissioners had exclusive jurisdiction to decide.
28  Many of these films tell classic stories in the traditional way that used to be Hollywood's exclusive domain. Now, with the studios focusing on games, comic book superheroes and putative tent poles, that business has gone elsewhere.
29  The latest members of the world's most exclusive club, the Nobel laureates, will be announced this week, in a year with more than usual certainty that amid the smiles and champagne will be acrimony and regret.
30  Space exploration, once the exclusive domain of the world's superpowers, is now being undertaken by dozens of nations aiming to show the world their technological prowess.