Example Sentences

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“Just to remind everyone, the law dictates that bringing firearms to campus like in this situation … is an expellable offense,” Principal Anthony Bridi said at the meeting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

“This is not an expellable offense,” Republican Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita said.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2022

Plagiarism is an expellable offense, and I am obligated to report all incidents to the Dean.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2013

They’d gotten kicked out in the last week of the previous school year, I learned, for what the Colonel called “the Trifecta”—they were caught committing three of Culver Creek’s expellable offenses at once.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Best of all, it did not, technically, involve any expellable offenses.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green