How to Use expulsion in a Sentence

expulsion

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  • The government engaged in mass expulsions.
  • The expulsion of Douglas Hann wasn't the end of the story.
    — TIME, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The book details what the Jews have endured: the pogroms, the expulsions, the Holocaust.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • He was said to be the first Chinese person to put down roots in the city since the expulsion.
    — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
  • All those facing the boards risk expulsion from the Marines.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The expulsion of Jews from Spain took place in 1492, the same year as Columbus' famed first voyage.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a reference to the Nakba of 1948—the expulsion of the Palestinians.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, vowed to resist any expulsion push.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • In the case of rockets, the action is the force produced by the expulsion of gas, smoke, and flames from the nozzle end of a rocket engine.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Sun resigned last month in the wake of a damning ethics report that was likely to lead to expulsion.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024
  • His siblings have campaigned against him in the past and have pushed for his expulsion from Congress.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • By 1956, the Suez Crisis and its expulsion of Egypt’s Jews displaced the rest of her family.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Bradley’s release was not a surprise, but Reyes’ expulsion from the premises was a shock.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Johnson, who is white, was the only one to survive her expulsion vote.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The disclosures led to the largest expulsion of Russian diplomats from Western countries since the end of the Cold War.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In 2021, just over half of the border encounters led to expulsion.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Mar. 2022
  • For more on what to expect from the expulsion vote, and what comes next, check out this explainer from Stewart.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Jean-Marie challenged the expulsion in court but was finally kicked out in 2018.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
  • For hate speech, though, expulsion is usually not one of them.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • CMEs are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun that reach Earth within 15 to 18 hours.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The expulsion process has been used before, and the member doesn’t have to be guilty of anything other than that two-thirds of members want him out.
    — WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Censures, which are rare in the House, are less severe than expulsion from the House but more severe than a reprimand.
    — Amy B Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Some states in the northwest sued for peace allowing for the expansion of slavery or even the expulsion of the New England states.
    — Douglass K. Daniel, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • He was employed as a door-to-door salesman and worked at a lumber yard in the time after his expulsion from the military.
    — CBS News, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Protesters amassed at the Capitol ahead of the expulsion vote and have continued to demonstrate.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The expulsion of Jones and Pearson sparked a national outcry from Democrats.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The motion to intervene seeks to delay a court order that would lift the expulsion measure on Dec. 21.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The big picture: There were already Democrats calling for Menendez's expulsion from the Senate after he was charged with the crimes last year.
    — Stephen Neukam, Axios, 16 July 2024
  • House members may be removed by expulsion, which would require a two-thirds vote.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • On immigration, AfD calls for closing Germany’s borders to asylum seekers and for the mass expulsion of immigrants, especially those from the Muslim world.
    — Simon Shuster/berlin, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025

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