Sample Sentences for
deport
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deport as in:  deport from the U.S.

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The government deported her.
deported = forced to leave the country
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    She appealed the deportation.
    deportation = forced removal to another country
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    When the Nazis came looking for Jews to deport, all the people who lived on the streets found places to hide.  (source)
    deport = force to move to another location
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    Only 5,000 of the deported Dutch Jews, a wall label explained, had survived.  (source)
    deported = sent out of the country
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    You can bet, if I win, my family will either be trained or deported.  (source)
    deported = sent out of the country
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    And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations-not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.  (source)
    deportation = being forced to leave a country
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Jack had only meant to rescue the princess, whom Dodge the commoner had been trying to kiss, and now he was on his way to tell his father and Queen Genevieve so that they'd deport Dodge to the Crystal Mines, which surely wasn't too great a punishment for such serious crimes.  (source)
    deport = send (from the community)
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    Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties.†  (source)
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    They keep criminals there sometimes before deporting them to Idris to stand trial before the Council.†  (source)
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    "Thanatos catches souls," Percy said, "and deports them back to the Underworld."†  (source)
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    Agents were required to fill out form I-213—the Record of Deportable Alien—when they detained an immigrant.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    They were deported on September 3, 1944, in the last transport to leave Westerbork, and arrived three days later in Auschwitz (Poland).  (source)
    deported = sent out of the country
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    Deportation on racial grounds has been defined as a crime against humanity,  (source)
    Deportation = forcing someone to leave a country
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    I'd deport him!  (source)
    deport = force (him) to leave the country
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deport as in:  deport herself with dignity

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The report said she "failed to deport himself with the generally recognized high standard of honesty."
deport = behave in a certain manner
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    She launched into a lecture on deportment and dress at school.
    deportment = behavior
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    deporting himself so beautifully  (source)
    deporting = behaving (in a manner)
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    Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.†  (source)
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    He had been handsome once, and in the strong cheekbones and clear forehead one could glimpse a kind of regal deportment, a man elevated beyond the ordinary.†  (source)
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    Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment.†  (source)
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    What a young miss could do and what she could not do were as different as black and white in Mammy's mind; there was no middle ground of deportment between.†  (source)
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    His deportment had now for some weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first.†  (source)
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    One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.†  (source)
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    Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.†  (source)
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    When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy, she turned her eyes on the daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria's astonishment at her being so thin and so small.†  (source)
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    She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment.†  (source)
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    He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.†  (source)
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    But his brutal deportment broke down when he saw Pietro Crespi's eyes grow moist.†  (source)
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