expulse
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of expulse
< Latin expulsus; expulsion
Example Sentences
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If not, he is threatening to expulse rebels and to throw a snap election by October 14.
From The Guardian
“And the second report? To expulse the Russian team from the Pyeongchang Games?”
From New York Times
If any of the males appeared to be having an “impure dream,” Barbosa said, everybody would be awakened, ordered to surround him and repeatedly shake him and shriek into his ears to “expulse the devils,” a Word of Faith practice called “blasting.”
From Seattle Times
Asad ibn Rabiya rose and said: 'Why cannot we expulse him from among us and banish him from our country?
From Project Gutenberg
For we're busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy with our bisness Wracked with duodenal ulcers Wives who from our homes expulse us Plagued with liquor, overfat and dizzi ness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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