PROSCRIBE in a Sentence

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1. He had been proscribed, a wanderer, poor.
2. They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.
3. the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death.
4. Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet.
5. Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus united to proscribe all those who had conspired against Julius Caesar.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROSCRIBE
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proscribe
 v.  command against; banish; outlaw
Classic Sentence:
1  After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  He had been proscribed, a wanderer, poor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
3  Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
4  the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
5  Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus united to proscribe all those who had conspired against Julius Caesar.
2  The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
3  They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.