PROSCRIBE in a Sentence

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For PROSCRIBE, below is one of 8 sentences:
The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROSCRIBE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.