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How to use expel in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Expel means to eject. Example: “He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.”

Examples of expel by meaning

verbTo remove from membership.

  • He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.
  • But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian

More sentences with expel

  • The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.From the entry mature
  • I got expelled when I punked the principal.From the entry punk
  • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.From the entry disruptive
  • The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?From the entry he
  • Why is thy mind not expelling words in a largifluous manner?2013, Percarus, Percarus, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry largifluous
  • The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line.2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry fluid
  • It is not clear why the refugees are being expelled now.2012 August 23, Edward Wong, “China Forcing Repatriation of Ethnic Refugees From Myanmar”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)…. From the entry Dehong
  • By its terms, Central Government troops were expelled from the provinces of Hebei and Chahar.2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not be Forgotten, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 19. From the entry Chahar
  • Light grey calves are virtually blubberless when expelled from the womb, but still weigh a ton.2004, Harry S. Pariser, Explore the Virgin Islands. From the entry blubberless
  • During this period, giant megaplumes exploded from deep within the earth, expelling huge quantities of molten material.1990, Roger Smith, Magill's Survey of Science: Earth Science Series Supplement, Volume 6, Salem Press, page 3160. From the entry superplume
  • "When found, the expelled elements may be gonial cells or oocytes, normal or rarely degenerating."1932, Tso-hin Cheng, The Germ Cell History of Rana Cantabrigensis Baird, page 558. From the entry gonial
  • Solvent will be rapidly expelled from the drainpipe.2014, M L Gambhir, Neha Jamwal, Building and Construction Materials, →ISBN. From the entry drainpipe
  • The “wriggling and wraggling” of the fish in their mother's guts evokes the seething waters that expelled Pilate's body.2014, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 124. From the entry wraggle
  • The expelled foam can be tinged pink with blood.2013 August 1, Ian Sample, “UN team heads to Syria to inspect sites of alleged chemical weapon attacks”, in The Guardian. From the entry foam at the mouth
  • Some of the expelled Dominguois who flocked to what was then Spanish Louisiana brought gold to New Orleans.2010, Stanley Clisby Arthur, Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'em, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry Dominguois
  • This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth.2008, Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry unct
  • I inhaled sharply, and got coffee instead of air, which my body expelled with a painful snough (sneeze-cough).2004, Stephanie Bond, Cover Me - Page 43. From the entry snough
  • A loudly expelled breath drew his attention to Belle Latchett.1992, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 64–65. From the entry unpracticed
  • How dare they expel her for something she hadn't done!1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda. From the entry rottenness
  • The air lift, or sandgun, sucks up the sand and mud, expelling particles everywhere, unless a tide is running.1967, U.S. Camera and Travel - Volume 30, page 33. From the entry sandgun
  • Watching as the woman lifted her skirts and flung out ectoplasm, expelled it into a bowl, then brandished it around at her audience wildly.2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 131. From the entry ectoplasm
  • On the third day of the campaign, Labor has been forced to disendorse and expel its candidate in the unwinnable seat of Southern Downs.2012 February 21, Sean Parnell, “Queensland state election campaign takes bitter turn”, in The Australian, retrieved 26 May 2013. From the entry disendorse
  • Four to six muscles on either side are attached to the syrinx, and sound is produced when air is expelled through it.2010, Peter Simmons, David Young, “Nerve Cells and Animal Signalling: Songs of Crickets, Electric Fish and Birds”, in Nerve Cells and…. From the entry syrinx
  • Koizumi had expelled from the party.2007 July 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “Japan’s Leader Attacked by His Own Party”, in New York Times. From the entry antireformist
  • General Zhigailo also used his connections to have an officer at the academy expelled from the party because he had criticized the general's behavior.2005, Roger R. Reese, Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918-1991, page 223. From the entry connection
  • A nonaffixed IUP measuring unit has a certain risk that it could be expelled by propagated uterine contractions during the early postpartum period.2005, American Journal of Veterinary Research, page 1612. From the entry nonaffixed
  • The fraternity was expelled from campus three years ago because a road trip, one of the time-honored pranks of an animal house, went terribly wrong.2003, Atlanta (volume 43, number 8, page 349). From the entry animal house
  • He liked painting from a young age and was even expelled from Kaohsiung Middle School as a result of his obsession with painting.2001, “黃清呈 [Huang, Qing-cheng]”, in 北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展 [Highlights from the Permanent Collection], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry Hsiyu
  • He came to New Orleans when the Dominguois were expelled from that West Indies island by the uprising of the black slaves.1991, Mary Louise Christovich, The American Sector, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN. From the entry Dominguois
  • Still, though the lettrist movement was not casual—members might be fined, put in purdah, or even expelled for malingering—aesthetic pluralism remained in effect.1989, Greil Marcus, “Version 2: A Secret History of a Time that Passed”, in Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century…. From the entry purdah
  • However, the Comintern laid the blame on the Chinese party for pursuing a 'false policy', and its leader, Chen Tu-hsiu, was condemned and later expelled.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry Comintern
  • Bishop Velasco of Hsiamen, China (expelled), expressed himself in complete agreement with Cardinals Ruffini and Browne and was for the schema as it stood.1963, Xavier Rynne, Letters from Vatican City, New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204. From the entry Hsiamen
  • In August Fathers Robert LeBas and Bernard Blusson of France were expelled to French Indo-China, along with six Sisters from Tsamkong, Kwangtung.1953, Gretta Palmer, God's Underground in Asia, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204. From the entry Tsamkong
  • The other option for a coalition is the EFF, led by former ANC youth leader Julius Malema, who was expelled from the party more than a decade ago.2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last…. From the entry Julius
  • A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain.2023 April, N. Khawaja, T. R. O’Sullivan, F. Klenner, L.H. Sanchez, J. Hillier, “Discriminating Aromatic Parent Compounds and Their…. From the entry tiger stripes
  • As the pressure around him dropped to sea level, the pressure exerted by the air inside his lungs would have mounted until a bubble was expelled into his bloodstream.2017, Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach, Corsair, page 290. From the entry air embolism
  • Indochinese refugees, known throughout the world as the “boat people,” were subject to horrific suffering and dangers when the Vietnamese government began expelling them after the fall of Saigon.2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184e. From the entry boat people
  • Ri had expelled the girl who had broken his heart to Muling County and had had a love affair with another woman before coming to Wangqing.2008 [1935], Kim Il Sung, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing…. From the entry muling

Meaning of expel

  1. verb To eject.
  2. verb To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  3. verb To remove from membership.

Full definition of expel

Questions about expel in a sentence

How do you use expel in a sentence?
Expel is used as a verb. For example: “He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.”
What is a short sentence with expel?
“Koizumi had expelled from the party.”
What does expel mean?
Expel means to eject.

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