OUTLAWED in a Sentence

Learn OUTLAWED from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For OUTLAWED, below is one of 29 sentences:
Each would bring hooks and lines, and such provision as he could steal in the most dark and mysterious way -- as became outlaws.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of OUTLAWED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
outlawed
 a.  against the law; forbidden
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett has outlawed herself by marrying such a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  She had already unclasped two costly bracelets and a collar, which she hastened to proffer to the supposed outlaw, concluding naturally that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Thou art no outlaw," said Rebecca, in the same language in which he addressed her; "no outlaw had refused such offers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  No outlaw in this land uses the dialect in which thou hast spoken.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  I am not an outlaw, then, fair rose of Sharon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
7  And, between two yeomen, was brought before the silvan throne of the outlaw Chief, our old friend, Prior Aymer of Jorvaulx.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
8  He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
9  Thus we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
10  For Pelopidas had to deal, not with two tyrants only, but with ten; and so far from having their confidence, could not, being an outlaw, even approach them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
11  At present, if we indeed journey to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, we do so with my noble neighbour and countryman Athelstane of Coningsburgh, and with such a train as would set outlaws and feudal enemies at defiance.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Two of the outlaws, taking up their quarter-staves, and desiring Gurth to follow close in the rear, walked roundly forward along a by-path, which traversed the thicket and the broken ground adjacent to it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Rowena, somewhat alarmed by the mention of outlaws in force, and so near them, strongly seconded the proposal of her guardian.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  By this time the change of baggage was hastily achieved; for the single word "outlaws" rendered every one sufficiently alert, and the approach of twilight made the sound yet more impressive.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  There are enough of outlaws in this forest to resent my protecting the deer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  According to all authoritative histories of the Sinn Fein-IRA movement, Adams served as an IRA commander for decades, but he has always denied holding any position in the outlawed group.
2  Congress approved legislation which outlawed the sale of the drug.
3  Viridina had freed him and sent him away to join the outlaw humans that had escaped their lives of slavery.
4  A robber or bandit, especially one of an outlaw band.
5  Robin Hood was an outlaw who lived in the forest and stole from the rich to give to the poor.
6  Each would bring hooks and lines, and such provision as he could steal in the most dark and mysterious way -- as became outlaws.
7  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.