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.
were evicting
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past progressiveof evict.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The New York Times reported in July that nursing homes were evicting an increasing number of low-income — and therefore low-profitability — residents into homeless shelters and run-down motels, apparently in violation of federal law.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Landlords were evicting Tully’s outlets and suing for back rent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
The body of Brook Macbeth was found on March 3 by sheriff’s deputies who were evicting her mother, Bonnie Macbeth.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2015
But during the summer of 1880 it was found that the Irish landlords were evicting wholesale the tenants whom famine had impoverished.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
