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 Dinet, Etienne
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 Kyd, Thomas
In this year the O'Briens, long the lords of the islands of Aran, "were expulsed from their territory by ye ferocious O'Flaherties of Iar Connaught."
From The South Isles of Aran by Burke, Oliver J.
For ever should they be expulsed from France, And not have tide of an earldom here.
From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
They reached Villiers to find every house empty, and were almost instantly expulsed by shells.
From With Those Who Wait by Huard, Frances Wilson
But when men have at hand a remedy, more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed.
From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint
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 Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
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