EXPEL in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for EXPEL, such as:

1. He was expelled from West Point.
2. They expelled a foreign spy from their country.
3. This serves to expel me from every place where I go.
4. This was worth getting expelled from the university.
5. He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expel
 v.  oust; discharge; force or drive out
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  This serves to expel me from every place where I go.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  I felt sure that you would expel me, so I told you at once who I am.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
3  The prejudices which they shared in common with the latter were fortified in themselves by an iron frame-work of reasoning, that made it a far tougher labour to expel them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  The house is filled with hum of voices eddying through the spacious chambers; lit lamps hang down by golden chainwork, and flaming tapers expel the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
5  "I know you two don't care about being expelled, or Tom either," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  This was worth getting expelled from the university.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  I swear I don't want to go home and listen to Ma take on about us being expelled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Fust place she'll ast me huccome Ah let y'all git expelled agin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  He was expelled from West Point.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  And so, almost before they knew what was happening, the Rebellion had been successfully carried through: Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
11  Poor Isaac was hurried off accordingly, and expelled from the preceptory; all his entreaties, and even his offers, unheard and disregarded.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
13  Either he would require to be expelled from the room by gendarmes, or his friends would have to kick him out into the street.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and sent to Moscow.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  He was hard alike on the lazy, the depraved, and the weak, and tried to get them expelled from the commune.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  If this is true, that wine and strong drink have such virtue to expel fear and sorrow, and to exhilarate the mind, let's drink and be merry.
2  He is not planning to expel foreign companies as he needs their expertise and technology to extract and upgrade Venezuela's heavy crude oil.
3  He is not planning to expel foreign companies, but he does want majority control of all ventures and a greater share of the profits.
4  The headmaster decided to make an example of the pupil and expel him from the school.
5  They were told at first that they should simply expel the refugees.
6  They expelled a foreign spy from their country.
7  Following reports of drug-taking at a boarding-school, several senior boys have been expelled.
8  The headmaster could not regard this latest escapade as a boyish joke and expelled the young man.