ejected

past tense of eject

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ejected This advice comes from a study, published in the , which investigated the mechanics of how tear-inducing chemicals are ejected from the vegetable. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 The game got so out of hand that 16 players were ejected — one of whom didn’t even know he was ejected. Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 He had already been ejected earlier in the third period. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025 Last week, at the Glasgow stop of her Infinity Heart tour, Siwa unexpectedly ejected two fans from the show over a hoodie that featured Siwa photoshopped onto an egg, an image that appeared to be mocking her hairline. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025 The preseason game took more than three hours to complete, at times saw a half-dozen Lightning players in the penalty box and at one point saw a third-period goal taken off the board because a player that had gotten ejected (Florida’s Niko Mikkola) was on the ice and assisted on the tally. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025 Planets will spiral into their stellar remnants or get ejected on timescales of 1025 years or so. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025 Previous studies had focused on older ice grains that had been flying in Saturn’s E-ring – a ring orbiting Saturn made up of material ejected from Enceladus. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025 When a foul wasn’t called on the play, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve charged the court to challenge a referee and was ejected from the game. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ejected
Verb
  • Arkansas coach Sam Pittman was fired Sunday, and defensive coordinator Travis Williams, co-defensive coordinator Marcus Woodson and defensive line coach Deke Adams were dismissed Monday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Pushed to extremes While footage and photographs of starving Palestinians in Gaza have horrified audiences abroad, inside Israel they have been dismissed by many as manipulated or untrue.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pearson, expelled from the Tennessee House in 2023 after leading a gun control protest, was later reappointed and won a special election, cementing his status as a rising progressive voice.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The elder Mamdani grew up in Uganda, in East Africa, in a community of Ugandans of Indian descent, known as the Bayindi, who played a prominent role in the country until Idi Amin expelled them en masse in 1972.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Will Brennan hit a ball deep to right field and Pérez chased it down, but couldn’t get to it.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As Leo chased Genesis around the kitchen, Rosalba and her mother prepared lunch—a delicious meal of chicken cooked in a broth of cinnamon, clove, laurel, and sour orange.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile protests have erupted across Europe calling for an end to the war.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Nepal’s Prime Minister, Sharma Oli, resigned from his position after the anti-corruption protests erupted across the country, leaving at least 72 people dead and hundreds wounded, most of them in the capital of Kathmandu.
    Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, the singer-songwriter was outed by an ex on social media.
    Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The burger diner chain, on social media, outed itself as being behind a billboard in Nashville, Tennessee, calling for the ouster of Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The girl only makes selfless wishes, and Iblis is banished to his lamp for a millennia for his failure.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Payton clearly doesn't think the play needs to banished for player safety reasons.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Patients placed their heads in a box illuminated by LED lights, which emitted a stable and controllable wavelength of light, and exposed their tongues.
    Eve Lu, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Next, the researchers studied it using the X-shooter spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope, which can capture different wavelengths of light emitted by an object ranging from ultraviolet to near-infrared.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025

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