All 12 Uses of
expel
in
Gone with the Wind
- They had just been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; and their older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution where the twins were not welcome.†
Chpt 1.1
- Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing as they did.†
Chpt 1.1
- I know you two don't care about being expelled, or Tom either," she said.†
Chpt 1.1
- What did your mother say about you two being expelled again?†
Chpt 1.1 *
- This was worth getting expelled from the university.†
Chpt 1.1
- You don't suppose it's because we got expelled?†
Chpt 1.1
- I swear I don't want to go home and listen to Ma take on about us being expelled.†
Chpt 1.1
- You know Mother said if we got expelled from another college we couldn't have our Grand Tour.†
Chpt 1.1
- The twins had been at home, freshly expelled from the University of Virginia, at the time the Troop was organized and they had joined enthusiastically; but after the shooting episode, two months ago, their mother had packed them off to the state university, with orders to stay there.†
Chpt 1.1
- Fust place she'll ast me huccome Ah let y'all git expelled agin.†
Chpt 1.1
- He was expelled from West Point.†
Chpt 1.6
- Everyone knew in detail how he had been expelled from West Point for drunkenness and "something about women."†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(expel) force outespecially in 2 primary senses:
- kicking someone out of an organization -- such as a school or country
- squeezing something to eliminate a liquid or gas