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.
• Police tried to expel Mr. Moreira’s group once, but the men just came back when the dust settled.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
• Over the course of 18 bloody days, American forces successfully expelled the invaders.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• Misoprostol brings on uterine contractions, causing the body to expel the pregnancy as in a miscarriage.
  — Claire Cain Miller and, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• In a stunning new image, astronomers have captured a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy expelling a high-energy jet of matter out into the cosmos.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• All Democrats and about half of Republicans voted to expel Harris in a 46-13 vote.
  — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Just 46% were familiar with the move by the Tennessee House to expel the legislators after the gun-control protest.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• Under the state Constitution, each chamber of the Legislature may expel a member.
  — Dallas News, 6 May 2023
• Several Democratic state legislators have been censured or expelled.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• Both of the two expelled, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, were ultimately reinstated by their district councils.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The drug causes the uterus to contract and expel the pregnancy tissue.
  — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 1 July 2024
• 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
• She was expelled, along with her roommate, after her roommate’s boyfriend was found in their dorm room.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• 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
• Immigration experts cite not just logistical but also legal hurdles to rounding up and expelling many people in the U.S. without permission.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024