evict
verb (used with object)
to expel (a person, especially a tenant) from land, a building, etc., by legal process, as for nonpayment of rent.
had evicted
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past perfectof evict.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Brown told police that he had evicted Kyriss from his home and only allowed her back to the house to get their children’s clothes and take them to school.
From Fox News ● Jan. 13, 2020
Bachofer had evicted them from the house last Tuesday, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2017
The cousin had evicted Ms. Kriss in her absence, a neighbor said, and discarded her belongings: clothing, mementos, documents.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2015
His grievance was that cops had been patronizing Hauke’s shop and that sheriffs had evicted his cousins, Hauke’s Section 8 tenants, from one of the apartments upstairs.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015
This article stated that the Duke had evicted over 123 families, numbering over 1,000 souls, not for non- payment of rent, but to create the lordly loneliness about Baronscourt.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
