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
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
But when men have at hand a remedy, more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
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
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
They reached Villiers to find every house empty, and were almost instantly expulsed by shells.
From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard
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