How to Use oust in a Sentence

oust

verb
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  • The rebels ousted the dictator from power.
  • Large national banks are ousting local banks in many communities.
  • Wax, Hardin, Christ and Harvey did not support the move to oust Singer.
    — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as speaker of the House.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But as more scandals washed over Mr. Johnson, Mr. Sunak moved to oust him.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The previous spring, Hull scored eight goals to help the Black Hawks oust the Wings in a seven-game, first-round series.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Colonel el-Qaddafi was ousted from Tripoli that August.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The superintendent was ousted in the wake of the shooting.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • McEnany is the first female host to fill in since Carlson was ousted.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 4 May 2023
  • The governor was flanked by more than a dozen officers who hailed the move to oust Warren.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Sam Altman is back at the helm of OpenAI, days after the board abruptly ousted him.
    — Deepa Seetharaman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Trump’s attempts to oust them for refusing to side with his push to overturn the 2020 election.
    — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The morning show has been in flux after Don Lemon was ousted from the channel, and after Kaitlan Collins was moved to the 9 p.m. hour.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2023
  • Congress had tried to oust him, but failed to garner enough votes for an impeachment.
    — Mitra Taj, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • House Democrats on Tuesday promised to kill any effort from Greene to oust him from his speakership.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • That included returning the House rules so that one member can move for a vote to oust the speaker.
    — Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But before that, the school board decided to oust the remaining four targets of the ethics reports.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Jean Jaques Cabou, a lawyer for Warren, said at the press conference that the governor had no grounds to oust Warren.
    — Miles Cohen, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • According to reports, the new speaker has agreed to allow any single member of the House to call for a vote to oust the speaker.
    — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • After Zucker was ousted in 2022, many believed that Lemon would be on the chopping block.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The flat steppe in the south — the feature that makes for such prime farmland — has only complicated the effort to oust Russian forces.
    — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • Many Kentucky Democrats hated him first, having failed to oust him seven times.
    — Scott Jennings, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The governing board doesn't have the power to oust Jann-Michael Greenburg from the board, but members did remove him as president of the board.
    — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2022
  • The second-term Republican is no ally of Trump, who tried to oust him from office last year.
    — Greg Bluestein The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Trump tamped down an attempt to oust Johnson in May by hard liners in his conference.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Oct. 2024
  • His main rival is the man who helped oust him last year, the centrist caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
    — Shira Rubin and Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • However, President Trump has renewed calls to oust the longtime Senate leader in the wake of the midterms.
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Brown stormed off after overhearing his partners plot to oust him.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • The constitutional court has up to six months to decide whether to reinstate or formally oust Yoon.
    — Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Some are worried that the city’s finances do not allow for the sort of investments favored by the mayor and union, or that ousting Mr. Martinez will disrupt academic improvement efforts.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024

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