How to Use kick to the curb in a Sentence
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The scapegoats will get kicked to the curb and the carousels will spin once again.
—Mike Jones, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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But 31,000 of us were still kicked to the curb.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
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Existential crises about the meaning of it all must be kicked to the curb.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
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Oregon State peaking right as it gets kicked to the curb feels unjust.
—Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
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That means to the world to somebody who’s been thrown through the wringer and discarded and kicked to the curb.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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However, if players give three wrong answers, they're kicked to the curb.
—Lindsay Soll, EW.com, 25 July 2025
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All the men are kicked to the curb except for a vaguely humanoid robot donning a baseball cat.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
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If that effort to see the matter kicked to the curb wasn’t much of a surprise, what came today certainly was.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
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Roksana also has the girl’s corpse kicked to the curb, which explains why so many of the walkers in the weeds have gaping holes in their chests.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 18 May 2025
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Everything but author, translator, and title was kicked to the curb.
—Bradley Babendir, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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This trend has been going out of style for a while, and 2024 will definitely see it get kicked to the curb.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
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The cherries are all upcycled after being kicked to the curb due to imperfections.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Unable to contain the bad press, the ad veterans are kicked to the curb, and Kriska and her crew are given the reins to the company.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
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In a city that runs on hype, Albert was more interested in those who’d opted out, been left behind or were kicked to the curb by the dream factory.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
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So your instrument needs to be tuned to the sensitivity to be able to play different people and, at the same time, get trashed around a lot and thrown and kicked to the curb.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
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The grandest of all seasons was unceremoniously kicked to the curb, the rowdy full-house crowd dropping into pin-drop silence.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
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Becket grew up poor, in downscale Belleville, NJ (his mother was kicked to the curb after getting pregnant out of wedlock).
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
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The shutdown resulted in numerous bands and small businesses on the bill — including local artists and global acts such as the Strokes — kicked to the curb.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
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Now, after being kicked to the curb in the Big Apple and reviving his career in Indy, he’s poised to be the face of the Colts.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
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The agreement, signed off on by the Legal Aid Society, takes pains to ensure that the most vulnerable people aren’t just kicked to the curb.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
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An otherwise encouraging effort in multiple facets gets kicked to the curb, and the reminders are everywhere that, too many times, these Browns have picked the wrong guys for the wrong jobs.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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Even their ex-coach, working in the desert clear across the country, figured his old team was poised for an extended run, only to see a 3-1 series lead turn into another Game 7 kick to the curb.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
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If that isn’t shocking enough, turns out that 35% of the Americans polled say cranberry sauce should be kicked to the curb, and 16% consider sweet potatoes/yams to be the worst thing to happen to the Thanksgiving table.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2025
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Such is the case with this genre-defiant quasi-thriller, in which a handsome but borderline unhinged Southern Californian guy (Sam Daly) becomes ostracized and kicked to the curb by his friends, and then goes on a road trip.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
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It’s been a rough couple of years for Matt Eberflus, who was kicked to the curb last year as Chicago’s head coach and now has struggled to pull the Cowboys’ unit together as the defensive coordinator in Dallas.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
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