EXODUS in a Sentence

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All that prevented a wholesale exodus was India's whispered message: "Captain Butler says not to run."

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 Meanings and Examples of EXODUS
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exodus
 n.  departure of a large number of people
Classic Sentence:
1  But when shells began falling in the streets for the first time, they fled to the cellars, and that night the exodus of women, children and old people from the city began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  All that prevented a wholesale exodus was India's whispered message: "Captain Butler says not to run."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  Last night there was no exodus, so to-night before the sundown I took away my garlic and other things.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  They've fled violence in Myanmar and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh; the amount of people is just unfathomable, and U.N. called the exodus as the fastest growing refugee crisis.
2  This exodus prompted the GDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany to create a five-kilometer-wide restricted area along the demarcation line.
3  The exodus from the hot and stuffy city was particularly noticeable on Friday evenings.
4  A massive exodus of doctors is forcing the government to recruit from abroad.