How to Use expel in a Sentence

expel

verb

• The club may expel members who do not follow the rules.
• She was expelled from school for bad behavior.
• The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote to expel a member of Congress.
  — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2023
• Misoprostol, taken a day or two later, causes contractions to expel tissue.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Most people in Gaza are refugees whose families were expelled from their homes in what became Israel in 1948.
  — Mustafa Barghouti, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
• Egypt should also join Qatar in threatening to deny Hamas officials access to, and expel them from, their territory.
  — Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2024
• But despite the fears of a confrontation — and a few initial fireworks and molotov cocktails — the effort to expel the activists Wednesday was largely peaceful.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Misoprostol is taken 24 to 48 hours later, causing the uterus to contract and expel pregnancy tissue.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The corals then expel the algae, their primary food source.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands of Jews moved the other way, expelled or seeking refuge from Arab nations to settle in the new state.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Eight of them, including Willis, Mayfield and Cole were expelled.
  — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• Three hundred thousand Arabs were expelled or fled before the British withdrew, in May, 1948.
  — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• After birth, the mom's body is able to expel the excess sugar and fat by breastfeeding.
  — Campbell Roper, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2023
• By expelling its viscera, the sea cucumber can buy itself time to crawl away from threats and seek safety.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024