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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By this time, the victim had evicted the pair from his home, but they had installed cameras in the beach house and watched his deteriorating condition from a luxury hotel, prosecutors said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
In one notable exchange, Mr. Walker tried to flip the script on Mr. Warnock, after the pastor skirted questions about whether an Atlanta apartment building owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church had evicted tenants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
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
Finally, from there—after an age-long struggle—Death had evicted Life.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
