How to Use evict in a Sentence

evict

verb

• His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon.
• They were evicted from their apartment.
• The tribe still plans to evict the remaining tribal members.
  — Maya Brown, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• An immigrant speaking broken English struggling to explain that his landlord wants to evict him for racist reasons.
  — Patrick Forrest, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Participants seem to cooperate with police, who have made no concerted effort to evict them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• Uganda hopes the assault, which is being conducted jointly with Congolese forces, will evict the group from its bases in Congo.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• Talley had been beset by a series of health issues, but the fashion tragedy goes further back, this piece details the end of his life, muddied by lawsuits and a move to evict him from his home.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2022
• The Nooksack Indian Tribe has taken steps in recent years to evict residents from tribal housing who the tribe states are not authentic members.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
• According to the Star-Tribune, Abdullah started the process to evict them on Dec. 20, days prior to the slaying.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• City officials yanked the homeowner into court, cited a city ordinance against keeping livestock and prepared to evict Christopher Whiteaker’s hens.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2022
• San Francisco landlords will have to provide tenants with a 10-day warning period before trying to evict them under a new law passed by city supervisors this week.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2022
• Hence, the lender was able to evict you and sell the home.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
• There are no plans to evict any of the tenants, Mills said.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2024
• The city of San Diego moved to evict most tenants from structures in 1987.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Doing so, Gross said, could lead the landlord to seek to evict you.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Each brought along door knockers who tried to evict her.
  — Dallas News, 28 July 2022
• Think of a household in a tough stretch that can’t cover next month’s rent and is evicted.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Metro Phoenix landlords moved to evict hundreds more renters in April than March.
  — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• The primary tenant cannot evict you or force you out of your home.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• If a judgment sides with the landlord, the tenant can be evicted.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
• If a judgment sides with the landlord, the tenant can be evicted.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
• The team turned out to have been evicted from a hotel for nonpayment.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• Gomberg fears that migrants who are evicted from city shelters will end up on the streets.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• He was being kept as a pet, the owner was evicted and the sanctuary took in the sick pig and nursed him back to health.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• She is allowed to live in her apartment as long as she isn’t evicted.
  — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 12 June 2023
• The man described Floyd as a blind senior who was close to being evicted.
  — Alexandra Duggan, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2024
• Not great screenplays, but decent enough ideas to not have me get evicted.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• Dozens of people were evicted at the time, but the squatters returned in greater numbers.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• Joseph Rodriguez was evicted Thursday by a vote of 4-3.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
• The family had also been evicted from their home months earlier.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024