How to Use oust in a Sentence

oust

verb

• The rebels ousted the dictator from power.
• Large national banks are ousting local banks in many communities.
• Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as speaker of the House.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Colonel el-Qaddafi was ousted from Tripoli that August.
  — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• The superintendent was ousted in the wake of the shooting.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Sam Altman is back at the helm of OpenAI, days after the board abruptly ousted him.
  — Deepa Seetharaman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• The morning show has been in flux after Don Lemon was ousted from the channel, and after Kaitlan Collins was moved to the 9 p.m. hour.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2023
• The second-term Republican is no ally of Trump, who tried to oust him from office last year.
  — Greg Bluestein The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2023
• There’s something that feels correct about this video coming out at the same time as George Santos being ousted from Congress.
  — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Bakersfield Republican left Congress at the end of 2023, with a year left in his term, after his own party ousted him as speaker of the House.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Spain defeated the Netherlands and Sweden ousted Japan on Friday to advance to the semifinals.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Niger has been engulfed in political chaos since late last month, when Bazoum was ousted in a coup d’etat by the presidential guard.
  — Umaro Djau, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• Ayotte was ousted from the Senate in 2016 after just one term and faces a tough road ahead if New Hampshire voters continue their years-long shift left.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 26 July 2023
• The next day, Christmas Eve, he was ousted in a coup, the first military uprising in the country’s modern history.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• If anything, the surprise was that only eight Republicans voted to oust him.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• The motion to vacate that ended up ousting him was backed by a very small minority of the party's conference.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The lack of a cohesive business model and doubts about Musk’s decision-making compounded these challenges, which led the board to oust him as CEO.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• The network did not provide a public explanation for why he was ousted.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• She was abruptly ousted from the governor’s inner circle in 2019.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Khan was ousted last year and was wounded when someone shot at his convoy after a rally in November.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 May 2023
• Putin’s real goal, many analysts say, is to oust Zelensky in favor of a Russian puppet regime.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• Reznikov’s removal comes after months of speculation that he would be ousted.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
• Tiffin’s city council ousted Repp from the bench in June 2022, local media reported.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• Their new strategy gives the mutineers, who lack the votes to oust Mr. McCarthy, significant power over the speaker and his agenda.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Licht’s first major effort, a new morning show, hit early headwinds in the ratings, and saw co-anchor Don Lemon ousted from the company after just a few months.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• The Republican, who just six months ago was on the brink of removal from office, is charging into Texas’ primaries on a dramatic campaign to oust dozens in his own party.
  — Jim Vertuno, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• The threat to oust Johnson Johnson is already facing a threat of a vote to oust him from the speakership over his decision to work with Democrats to fund the government last month, a move that many conservatives opposed.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Khan was ousted as prime minister in April 2022 in a parliamentary no-confidence vote.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• But after tackling the first order of business, Arnault ousted Racamier too (from his own family business, no less).
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• Still, the process of ousting Mr. Sunak would be a challenge, even for a party famous for its ruthlessness in discarding unpopular leaders.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024