expulse
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of expulse
< Latin expulsus; see expulsion
Example Sentences
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Asad ibn Rabiya rose and said: 'Why cannot we expulse him from among us and banish him from our country?
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Thus must we worke that will auoide distrust, Thus must we practice to preuent mishap, And thus one ill another must expulse.
From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd
For ever should they be expulsed from France, And not have tide of an earldom here.
From King Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Many avaricious men had already on various pretexts "expulsed" the priests or incumbents and taken the emoluments for themselves.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
So did the Romaines by their armes restore many Kings of Asia and Affricke expulsed out of their kingdoms.
From The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham
The court then issued a decree summoning Cardenas to appear at once at Charcas and give his reasons why he had had himself made Governor and had expulsed the Jesuits from Paraguay.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Malgo succeeded Vortiponus which was the goodliest man in person of all Britaine, a prince that expulsed many tyrants.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
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