How to Use expel in a Sentence

expel

verb
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  • The club may expel members who do not follow the rules.
  • She was expelled from school for bad behavior.
  • Míriel at first seeks to expel the elf from her kingdom.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
  • And then, in 1952, the Chinese government expelled the French and Swiss Catholics.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Two-thirds of the House would have to vote to expel Santos for the resolution to pass.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • To keep the body in balance, the kidneys must remove excess acid from the blood and expel it from the body in urine.
    — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The school expels him for a year for making a threat of mass violence.
    — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The school expels him for a year for making a threat of mass violence.
    — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
  • An effort to expel the state senator, led by the Democrats, failed.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2022
  • The order has been used to expel migrants about 1.7 million times over the past two years.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Each one is equipped with a rapid-release valve for expelling all hydrogen gas in the event of a fire.
    — New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Police tried to expel Mr. Moreira’s group once, but the men just came back when the dust settled.
    — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The pills killed her unborn twins, but did not expel their remains.
    — The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
  • When the hormone is absent, the uterus will expel its contents.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Only five members of the House have been expelled in the body’s history.
    — Michael Gold, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • When the seawater is too warm, the coral’s stress response is to expel algae, causing the coral to turn white.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Jones and Pearson were expelled in April, but Johnson was not.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Critics might also try to get the House to expel Santos.
    — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The drug causes the uterus to contract and expel the pregnancy tissue.
    — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • Of the seven cadets who were expelled, Jane said, five were minorities.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In a production setting, there isn’t a band of wildlife going up and down the isles eating and expelling seeds.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • As a young man, he had been expelled from the city’s Jewish community for his heretical views on God and the Bible.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • He was expelled from school, convicted of burglary and sentenced to some five years in prison.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The misoprostol works to expel fetal tissue from the uterus.
    — Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
  • When the water grows too warm, coral expels the algae living in its tissues and turns white.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 July 2023
  • And the two expelled Tennessee Democrats win back their seats in special elections.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • She was expelled, along with her roommate, after her roommate’s boyfriend was found in their dorm room.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Two stroke engines also use ports instead of valves to bring in air and fuel (and oil) and expel exhaust.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 16 Aug. 2023
  • What is required is to end the [Israeli] occupation and aggression against our people, not to expel them from their land.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Our people in the Gaza Strip will not allow these plans to pass, and what is required is to end the occupation and aggression against our people, not to expel them from their land.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025

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