eviction

in a sentence

Israel began the forcible eviction of thousands of Gaza settlers.

The landlord is threatening to evict us because of the odor.  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

Often, growers evicted the strikers from their labor camps, forcing many to live together in makeshift refugee camps, sometimes on farms on the outskirts of towns.  (source) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

The pretext was that they had evicted a trespasser.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

After a bit of inquiry, the landlord placed the home on the rental market with a severe discount to account for the sensational circumstances of the prior tenant's eviction.†  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

Two years ago, she had tried to evict them on the pretext that relatives from China were coming to live there.†  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

I now recalled that the bully had closed all the ancient temples across the empire, basically evicting us Olympian gods.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016

Evictions, they called them, not deportations.†  (source) Leon Leyson, The Boy on the Wooden Box, 2013

Connor wonders how he can call the place he lives home, when he's about to be evicted—not just from the place he sleeps, but from the hearts of those who are supposed to love him.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Ye can move up here tonight an' ye won't have the eviction men coming after ye.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

She teased him because it was all so pretty and melodic, and "in the same phylum as Hall and Oates," and he threatened to evict her from his room.†  (source) Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park, 2013

He had settled Prince Oberyn and his lords in a cornerfort facing the city, as far from the Tyrells as he could put them without evicting them from the Red Keep entirely.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000

We changed houses often because of evictions.†  (source) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992