How to Use ouster in a Sentence

ouster

noun
  • The news reported the ouster of the dictator.
  • Jennifer Ernst said her son is not fazed by the ouster.
    Mike Schell, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a timeline of 18 months of turmoil at CNN that led up to his ouster.
    Gregory Schmidt, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • The lack of a plan after McCarthy’s ouster seems to show that obstruction is kind of the point.
    Charles R. Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • After the vote, LaMalfa told me his vote was in protest of the ouster of his dear friend McCarthy.
    Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Khan’s party has done well in by-elections held since his ouster.
    Mehdi Hasan, NBC News, 26 July 2023
  • The statement did not elaborate on the reasons for his ouster.
    Meredith Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The army had promised to hand over power last Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of Mr. al-Bashir’s ouster.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • After his ouster in 1990, Mr. Jiang stayed on as a professor.
    Joy Dong, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Lentz sat down with the doc crew for an interview in 2022, about two years after his ouster from Hillsong.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • The irony is that in the dispute that precipitated her ouster, Gay was right and Stefanik was wrong.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But all of that appeared to be water under the bridge the morning after Mr. McCarthy’s ouster.
    Annie Karni, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The case led to the ouster of some of the sport’s longest-serving leaders, tearing down empires and creating room for fresh faces.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Only about a quarter of the book, which is ostensibly about the 1960s, is devoted to the six years of the decade that followed Khrushchev’s ouster.
    Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Even Sonko, a former tax inspector who garnered 16% in the last election, hasn’t called for Sall’s ouster.
    Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
  • Its new morning show — a flashpoint during Licht’s tenure that led to co-host Don Lemon’s ouster — has not fared well.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 June 2023
  • His ouster from parliament was approved on Wednesday by 235 votes to 1.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • By the time Arévalo left office in 1951, there had been numerous attempts on his life and plots for his ouster.
    USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The corruption case is one of more than 100 registered against Khan since his ouster after four years in power.
    Reuters, NBC News, 10 May 2023
  • Crowder, who also had drawn interest from the Heat, played 41 minutes in Milwaukee’s 4-1 opening-round ouster at the hands of the Heat.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Carlson’s ouster from Fox News shocked the overlapping worlds of politics and media.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 12 June 2023
  • Still, much is on the line for Love given a disappointing – or even average – season could very well lead to his ouster next year.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • It's expected that McCarthy will counter the move with a motion to table, effectively killing the ouster.
    Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
  • With Musk himself owning around 13% of those shares, that makes any ouster extremely difficult to achieve.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • First, the American invasion and the ouster of Saddam Hussein bit into the state’s support of farmers.
    Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • At the speaker's office, where McCarthy's name had still been out front since his ouster last week, crews were seen carting boxes and artwork out of the stately suite in the Capitol.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Attorneys for the state had asked the judge to reject an emergency motion from Zephyr’s lawyers challenging her ouster.
    USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • The demonstrations have since spread, as have photos and videos of them, some evoking the protests that filled the country’s streets in 2011 as hopeful masses demanded the ouster of Assad.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton effused that Gaddafi’s ouster and death marked smart diplomacy at its best.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But the defeat and ouster of the junta altogether cannot be discounted either.
    Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024

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