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
  • The country has been on the brink since Castillo’s ouster last week.
    Claudia Rebaza, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Now at the end of the team's fourth season, that fan base is calling for Wolff's ouster.
    Bob Gee, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And Sunak’s leading role in Johnson’s ouster seemed to hurt him with the grass roots.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The firestorm that followed helped hasten their ousters.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Bill Pulte was appointed to the board of directors that year and the two Pultes pushed for Dugas' ouster.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Since his ouster in 2008, the army had sought to shield Mr. Musharraf from the full wrath of Pakistan’s justice system.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • So Jon’s early ouster cannot be blamed on folks wanting to get the famous rich guy out of there.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The ‘Arab Spring’ protests led to Gamal’s ouster from his party leadership role.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • And other Democrats believed that Biden is in it for the long haul, as long as pressure for his ouster fails to reach a breaking point.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • His ouster at PayPal (which Selby said on stage he was not involved in) was contentious.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 10 May 2024
  • 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
  • The governor has denied playing any part in Rodell’s ouster.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Since his ouster, Khan has claimed that his government was toppled by Sharif under a U.S. plot.
    Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The Titans may still be reeling from their sudden playoff ouster.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The project took advantage of the team’s early playoff ouster to shut down the arena for 96 days in order to complete all upgrades.
    David Ramil, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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