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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The far-off storm flashing on the horizon expels my subliminal rage.
  — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• When water gets too warm, corals expel algae that live in their tissues and give them their vibrant colors.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• Russia has managed to retake some of that territory, but has failed to expel the Ukrainian invaders and seemed reluctant to divert troops from the war’s eastern front lines to do so.
  — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024