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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In 1971 Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations in favor of China.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• The far-off storm flashing on the horizon expels my subliminal rage.
  — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• Those who refused could be fined, jailed or even expelled from the city—but Costin was apparently willing to take this risk.
  — Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
• Of course that’s the same state legislature that expelled two Black men for protesting after a mass shooting, but not the white woman who did the same.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2023
• But if a hole suddenly opens in the fuselage when a plane is high above the earth, the higher pressure inside can force people and objects to be expelled from the plane.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• India rejected those claims and expelled a Canadian diplomat the next day in a tit-for-tat move.
  — Evan Hill, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• In golf parlance, it is called losing your tour card, which is a gracious way of saying you were expelled from the top level of golf for shoddy play.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Favoring the young while expelling the old kept the genre at the epicenter of cool but limited which Black men’s health stories got told.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• The stress from high temperatures can cause coral to expel its algae and slowly starve to death, which leads it to become a ghostly white.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• In October 2022, he was expelled from the party and arrested.
  — Laura He, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Musa Khalid from Congo was among a group of migrants expelled from Tunisia and found by Libyan border guards huddling in a barren zone last weekend.
  — Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Elaine Ganley, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• The missile slammed into the structure with the sort of precision the Ukrainians have come to rely on in their 17-month fight to expel the Russian occupiers.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• Regulations have since changed, but older buildings may still expel lead from old paint and dust.
  — The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024