expulse
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of expulse
< Latin expulsus; see expulsion
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Oliver J. Burke
Advise ye well, Supreme Senate, if charity be thus excluded and expulsed, how ye will defend the untainted honour of your own actions and proceedings.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
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
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
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
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