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.
• Míriel at first seeks to expel the elf from her kingdom.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• 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
• To keep the body in balance, the kidneys must remove excess acid from the blood and expel it from the body in urine.
  — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• The school expels him for a year for making a threat of mass violence.
  — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
• An effort to expel the state senator, led by the Democrats, failed.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2022
• Each one is equipped with a rapid-release valve for expelling all hydrogen gas in the event of a fire.
  — New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The pills killed her unborn twins, but did not expel their remains.
  — The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Critics might also try to get the House to expel Santos.
  — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 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
• The misoprostol works to expel fetal tissue from the uterus.
  — Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 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
• The question is, can the Ethics Committee investigate him; can the House vote to expel him?
  — ABC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Eight of them, including Willis, Mayfield and Cole were expelled.
  — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• By June 24th, the camp had dwindled to five hundred, and police fired tear gas to expel those remaining.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022
• Three hundred thousand Arabs were expelled or fled before the British withdrew, in May, 1948.
  — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Less than a day after being accused, Ruggia was expelled from the French directors’ guild.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
• Title 42 is a controversial Trump-era policy that allowed for asylum-seekers to be expelled from the country.
  — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 22 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025