expulsive
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of expulsive
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French expulsive (feminine) < Medieval Latin expulsīvus. See expulsion, -ive
Example Sentences
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In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
This governmental pressure which began to be applied at the beginning of the eighties became equivalent in the course of time to an expulsive force.
From Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph
What Chalmers called "the expulsive power of a new affection" in the cure of souls, is the precise method of operation in the cure of some bodily ills.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
Occasionally, long passages in music demand that the expulsive power of the breathing apparatus be used to its limit.
From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
No serious steps were ever taken to carry out these expulsive measures, unless the obstruction of navigation of the Shimonoseki straits by the daimyō of Chōshū be regarded of this character.
From Japan by David Murray
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