eject
verb (used with object)
to drive or force out; expel, as from a place or position.
had ejected
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past perfectof eject.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Reading from a sheet of paper, a female anchor announced that a U.S. aircrew had ejected from a plane in southwestern Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Mr. Hussein had ejected international weapons inspectors, which was seen in Washington as a humiliating policy failure for Mr. Clinton.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
Earlier in the nearly two-month trial, the judge had ejected Hylton for openly sobbing during testimony.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
Rauch and her brother John went searching for the plane and found the two Marines who had ejected, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
He had been censor, and in this capacity he had ejected disreputable senators from the Curia; he had degraded offending Equites; he had rearranged and tried to purify the Comitia.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
