kicking out

present participle of kick out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of kicking out Räty stabilizing his stock, Cootes continuing to stand out and Sasson kicking out to the wing — that feels like a signal. Thomas Drance, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 The final moments of the match featured the WWE Intercontinental Champion hitting the Three Amigos, with Styles kicking out of his pinfall attempt. Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 Seldon is absolutely stumped, immediately disappearing and closing the Vault and kicking out everyone inside to face the invasion on their own. Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025 In fact, those judges often grant landlords possession of properties at the time that repayment deals are made — expediting the process of kicking out tenants who violate the agreements. Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicking out
Verb
  • As a result of the investigation, embassy officials decided not to renew the employee’s contract, effectively dismissing him.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The appellate court last year reversed Martínez-Olguín’s initial case dismissal, leading to the judge dismissing it again.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Upon avoiding vehicles, the Honda skidded sideways between the first lane and the emergency lane, and rolled at least three times, ejecting the driver.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The stars will all burn out; the corpses of these stars will radiate all their heat away and cool to absolute zero; the stellar remnants will gravitationally interact, ejecting the majority of objects into intergalactic space, while the few remaining black holes grow to enormous sizes.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The heart-tugging comedy is a point of pride for Johansson, 40, who hopes to set an example to her kids by stepping behind the camera and chasing her dreams.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • What matters now is building stamina, not chasing another rush.
    Aman Ghei, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the King isn’t totally banishing Andrew and his ex-wife.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For Darnold, Thursday’s victory went some way to banishing demons from last season.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rainfall from that storm was evenly distributed and soaked in rather than running off as flash floods.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The senior played a few snaps on the second series and just one snap on TCU’s third series before running off the field with a slight limp and signaling for freshman Dozie Ezukanma to come into the game.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The network will air the iconic Video Music Awards for the first time ever, and a number of top names are turning out to support the event.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Old Hamlet’s retainers acquired crumbling public housing estates turning out occupants enabling them to build showy apartments for cash buyers.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And while Tapestry had hoped to gather learnings on footwear production, word in the shoe market from investment bankers was that its biggest mistake was in throwing out the lasts that the brand’s founder and chief designer had perfected over the years.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Although he’s been linked to other teams already, one idea worth throwing out there is Kevin Love.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The name Jesus in Hebrew is Joshua—the name of Moses’s successor, who conquered the land of Israel in ancient times and set up an independent Jewish state, expelling and defeating his enemies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Fernández Noroña is also calling an emergency session Friday to propose expelling Moreno and the three other PRI lawmakers as a result of the scuffle, the New York Post reported.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Kicking out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicking%20out. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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