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  • Also, the man was chewing tobacco, and the muzzle of ice held his lips so rigidly that he was unable to clear his chin when he expelled the juice.   (source)
    expelled = spit out (forced out)
  • He's already been expelled twice from the university.   (source)
    expelled = forced out of an organization
  • He said Seven and I should be expelled because we "started it," and that Seven shouldn't be allowed to graduate.†   (source)
  • There was nothing like a good fight to expel the teenage energy.†   (source)
  • But there was no freedom of expression, and if anyone criticized the wali, they could be expelled from the valley.†   (source)
  • So far, it did only three things: eat, sleep ( it looked like sleeping, though Doon couldn't tell if the worm closed its eyes—or even if it had eyes), and expel tiny black poop balls.†   (source)
  • She said she'd prayed to have Mr. Erskine expelled from our house, and that God had heard her.†   (source)
  • Because of your poor record, you had already been suspended for several months, and you were about to be expelled from the force.†   (source)
  • Chris went to the school nurse, and after I confirmed that I hadn't killed him and would avoid the police, my thoughts immediately turned to the school justice system—whether I'd be suspended or expelled and for how long.†   (source)
  • They talked about Dr. Fisch's expulsion from his profession, and the visit from the Sattler brothers, which Paul had kept to himself until then.†   (source)
  • I'd now racked up so many unexcused absences that I was in danger of being expelled.†   (source)
  • His body convulsed, and his head jerked wildly, until the howling gave way to prayerlike utterances, every word expelled in the breathless surge of confession: "I killed you, I KILLED YOU," then a whispered "forgive me," then, "FORGIVE ME, OH, GOD …" and finally, "What have I done … WHAT HAVE I DONE?†   (source)
  • She took a deep breath, expelling the thought.†   (source)
  • For years Walter's family members and supporters had been confronted with menacing stares and threats of expulsion whenever they expressed some spontaneous opinion during court proceedings, but today the deputies accepted their expressive cheerfulness in silence.†   (source)
  • It comes out sounding like Ohhhhhh, like an expelled breath.†   (source)
  • He turned his head, sending a fresh wave of pain across his skull, and saw that all the openings were expelling similar jets of fog.†   (source)
  • In fact, I just walked around the surrounding streets for half an hour, expelling hot clouds of breath into my tightly wrapped scarf.†   (source)
  • At this, Mr. Benedict burst into laughter — a squeaky, rapid, stuttering expulsion that sounded rather like a dolphin.†   (source)
  • Lawton immediately called Judge Oliver and demanded that Mrs. Tyo be expelled from the jury for discussing the case outside the jury room and be replaced by one of the alternate jurors.†   (source)
  • I told her I wasn't too down about the expulsion.†   (source)
  • Or expelled.†   (source)
  • Before we had a chance to absorb all that news, we were hit by even worse; on Hitler's orders, thousands of Polish Jews, perhaps as many as 17,000, had been expelled from Germany.†   (source)
  • Sven had been his name—though she didn't know why he'd been expelled from the army.†   (source)
  • I'm willing to bet I'm the only Drake student who's ever managed to get eight reports in one quarter without being expelled.†   (source)
  • Mr. Meany was still angry at Gravesend Academy for expelling Owen, but I convinced him that Owen would be "outraged in heaven" if the Wiggins ever got their hands on him.†   (source)
  • Releasing all fear and doubt, Baggia opened his mouth and expelled what he knew would be his final breath.†   (source)
  • The penalty for this and for any other Level Four Infraction is expulsion.†   (source)
  • Expelled to some other world.†   (source)
  • He was in danger of being expelled.†   (source)
  • Going there risked expulsion, destroyed the studying I was going to do for an important test the next morning, blasted the reasonable amount of order I wanted to maintain in my life, and it also involved the kind of long, labored bicycle ride I hated.†   (source)
  • Expel the object!†   (source)
  • Whenever the thought of his father's weakness and failure troubled him he expelled it by thinking about his own strength and success.†   (source)
  • Inside, the surprised Watney slammed against the airlock's back door with the force of the expulsion.†   (source)
  • He smiled that sexy Darren Wilden smile that had probably kept him from getting expelled from Rosewood.†   (source)
  • The superintendent upheld Rameck's expulsion, and a final hearing was held.†   (source)
  • I would watch the assistant football coach leave anonymous chocolates for the married science teacher, or the head of the cheerleading squad trying to capture the attention of the kid who had been expelled so many times, from so many schools, even he had lost count.†   (source)
  • She was stupid; she got caught; she got expelled; it's over.†   (source)
  • And the head would never expel someone whose mother is …. you know.†   (source)
  • He told them that one of the doctors who treated Henrietta didn't have a medical license, and that another had been expelled from the American Medical Association.†   (source)
  • I expel a nervous breath.†   (source)
  • At any rate, after the Blackwells were expelled from Cairo—expelled isn't the best term, perhaps.†   (source)
  • They hit you if you don't know why God made the world, if you don't know the patron saint of Limerick, if you can't recite the Apostles' Creed, if you can't add nineteen to forty-seven, if you can't subtract nineteen from forty-seven, if you don't know the chief towns and products of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, if you can't find Bulgaria on the wall map of the world that's blotted with spit, snot, and blobs of ink thrown by angry pupils expelled forever.†   (source)
  • This rule is strictly enforced, and violators face prohibitive fines and expulsion from Nepal.†   (source)
  • My whole body feels like it's trying to expel something, cough something up from deep in my chest.†   (source)
  • The expulsion of these people, who had already been picked clean by war, was a godsend for the British escapers.†   (source)
  • PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: I should expel you but (with a look to HARRY) all things considered—I think it might be safer for you to remain in my care.†   (source)
  • Thus dwarf anatomy ensured that all gas was passed below, actually aiding in the expulsion of unwanted clay.†   (source)
  • Many MS gangsters settle in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being expelled to their home countries in Central America.†   (source)
  • I try to unbreathe it, to expel it from my lungs.†   (source)
  • Will I be expelled?†   (source)
  • He came toward her, the tears brimming over his lower lids now, his head shaking involuntarily as if in a fruitless effort to ward off this emotional storm, and his chest drew in a convulsive gasp that was expelled in a huge, racking sob.†   (source)
  • "You'd be expelled if you got into a fight with Mrs. Collins.†   (source)
  • He warned me to keep Minnijean's expulsion in mind.†   (source)
  • They demanded that I deny you sanctuary and expel you from Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • The public response to the piece was so overwhelming I decided to delve further, partly to get out of working for a living and partly to expel some of my own demons regarding my brown skin, curly hair, and divided soul.†   (source)
  • The medical ward where he had awakened, beds, fugue tanks, intensive care apparatus… most of it expelled through the breaches in the spinmod's hull.†   (source)
  • Washington immediately presented the Taliban leaders with a difficult choice-either expel bin Laden, who was held responsible for the bombings by the U.S. government, or face the consequences.†   (source)
  • Begin anywhere but tell it, expel it.†   (source)
  • "You're terrifying to him, but he can't expel you.†   (source)
  • The expulsion from Eden to the bitter lands to the east is a parable for the massive deportation of Israelites to Assyria following Sargon il's victory.†   (source)
  • They also told her the next time I cut class or even made a feint toward trouble, I'd be expelled.†   (source)
  • That was the first of three expulsions.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn expelled a sigh.†   (source)
  • Yet, the Dean invoked an obscure rule that left expulsion on the table.†   (source)
  • Getting drunk was a big deal back then, and she'd be looking at suspension, maybe even expulsion, if she got caught.†   (source)
  • These shelters accommodated Jews from the country around Warsaw who had been thrown into the ghetto, as well as those expelled from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary.†   (source)
  • They died, expelling in the breath of their choice the very breath of God.†   (source)
  • I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you good people—and I am sure I speak for you too—I am shocked that a Harrison student should be expelled from one of our schools because he desires to sing the national anthem.†   (source)
  • So we didn't fight the expulsion.†   (source)
  • According to the rules of the Academy, that error was reason for expulsion.†   (source)
  • The cloud is vented sand being expelled after the spice has been centrifugally removed.†   (source)
  • And so Phaedrus, who at the age of fifteen had finished his freshman year of science, was at the age of seventeen expelled from the University for failing grades.†   (source)
  • There were between six and ten of us, the figure changing whenever Ruth allowed in a new member or expelled someone.†   (source)
  • He's the only dog I've ever known to get expelled from obedience school."†   (source)
  • The Big Bang caused all the substance in the universe to be expelled in all directions, and as it gradually cooled, it formed stars and galaxies and moons and planets …†   (source)
  • There had been a half-Filipino boy in his junior high school class whom he had beaten often, once so badly that he would have been expelled, had someone been willing to say who had done it.†   (source)
  • He had been expelled from Haiti during the time of the junta but had sneaked back to his hospital.†   (source)
  • "It'd be just like him to expel you two weeks before you graduate."†   (source)
  • I've already breached so many rules of professional conduct in this whole dismal mess that the Journalists Association would undoubtedly expel me if they knew about it."†   (source)
  • Vee expelled a luxurious sigh.†   (source)
  • The others were outside sucking fresh air and trying to expel from their nose buds the odor of warm, dead muskrat.†   (source)
  • She knows deep down how much importance I put on controlling the image I portray, while she doesn't care if she's suspended …. or expelled.†   (source)
  • Soon, alarm clocks would begin to ring and the houses would expel the morning people.†   (source)
  • He did warn me, however, that he could not allow his students to act irresponsibly, and he said that if I insisted on resigning, he would be compelled to expel me from Fort Hare.†   (source)
  • Dear Lord--if I get expelled now, my father will kill me.†   (source)
  • The linings of his intestines have come off and are being expelled along with huge amounts of blood.†   (source)
  • The wind was in his blood, and the swirling water flashed, drew closer, and then there was acid in his throat and he was on his hands and knees, the stones cold beneath his hands, vomiting into the wild gray river, heaving until nothing more could be expelled.†   (source)
  • Captain Bugloss, the officer responsible, had, of course, been demoted and expelled from the Owsla, but his disgrace, though very proper, only added to the General's difficulties.†   (source)
  • If they failed to live up to Methodist standards, they were expelled from the group.†   (source)
  • I didn't think I'd be sent to the SHU or get expelled from prison.†   (source)
  • Both men tipped their glasses, took a gulp of the clear liquid, and expelled their breath with an explosive pah.†   (source)
  • Sort of gently expelled with the faintest kind of squishy sound, Eric said.†   (source)
  • They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time.†   (source)
  • Two guys failed their second chance and were expelled from training.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Mademoiselle," I say, trying to expel as little breath as possible.†   (source)
  • Askew was expelled.†   (source)
  • What about expelling me?†   (source)
  • Pressure from the United States and Egypt had led to his expulsion from a comfortable compound in Sudan.†   (source)
  • He was on track to be expelled.†   (source)
  • Now he was behaving with this strange woman as though having the name was a matter of deep personal pride, as though she had tried to expel him from a very special group, in which he not only belonged, but had exclusive rights.†   (source)
  • It sounded more like an anguished expulsion of air: Sheeesh!†   (source)
  • She relinquishes it and shudders as if she's trying to expel the taste from her mouth.†   (source)
  • If a Dark Daughter or Son fails to uphold these new ideals, it will be the job of the Prefect Council to decide upon a penalty, which could include expulsion from the group.†   (source)
  • So they called him Gollum, and cursed him, and told him to go far away; and his grandmother, desiring peace, expelled him from the family and turned him out of her hole.†   (source)
  • There were huge fortified portholes along the sides, and various openings below the waterline that both drew in and expelled water.†   (source)
  • We are going down to the middle of the earth with pickax eyes, tunneling by train to the interior, carried along by the momentum of the expulsion into the waiting wilderness.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba got furious with her and threatened to expel her from his house, but Blanca was unyielding.†   (source)
  • Please come to my natal home for Expel Birds Festival.†   (source)
  • What are the grounds for expulsion?†   (source)
  • We waited in breathless suspense while a succession of strange noises came from behind the sheet: an expulsion of air, a sound like someone clapping their hands once, sharply—and then Miss Wren jumped up and took a shaky step backward.†   (source)
  • She had an irresistible desire to expose her body (that alien body she wanted to expel into the big wide world) to the undertow.†   (source)
  • But Aaron, whose schedule was flexible due to a recent expulsion, claimed he hadn't seen her, so I settled in to wait.†   (source)
  • All they did with the guys that were in the room with him was expel them.†   (source)
  • Only the Dean's threat of immediate expulsion prevented me from engaging in a fistfight that day.†   (source)
  • These words precipitated Lucky's expelling a spray of beer onto Cesar's shirt.†   (source)
  • Screaming with enough force to expel his lungs and his intestines.†   (source)
  • I thought of the glee certain folks at home would feel if I were expelled.†   (source)
  • There was another scream, this lower, more abrupt, an expulsion of breath more than a roar.†   (source)
  • Jefferson and others imagined a tempestuous John Adams expelling foreigners by the shipload.†   (source)
  • We sent Randoll for a knife and a piece of thread while Mary expelled the glistening afterbirth.†   (source)
  • That they'd have to inject her with a saline solution to expel her baby's remains.†   (source)
  • The man atop Joe was breathing hard too, expelling foul clouds of garlic breath, not only giving Joe time to calm down but getting his own strength back.†   (source)
  • We choked out the words–they burst from us like the water in our lungs had, expelled.†   (source)
  • The Blackfish expelled all the useless mouths from Riverrun and picked this country clean.†   (source)
  • The song ended with a huge expulsion of air, and the congregation sat down as one body.†   (source)
  • Such penances had been sent before: the expulsion from Eden, the Flood, pestilences, the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the Captivity.†   (source)
  • This is grounds for expulsion!†   (source)
  • Failure to mind this rule will result in expulsion.†   (source)
  • He was gently expelled from the studio during a commercial.†   (source)
  • There were districts that rose in blind rebellion, arrested the local officials, expelled the agents of Washington, killed the tax collectors-then, announcing their secession from the country, went on to the final extreme of the very evil that had destroyed them, as if fighting murder with suicide: went on to seize all property within their reach, to declare community bondage of all to all, and to perish within a week, their meager loot consumed, in the bloody hatred of all for all, in…†   (source)
  • They are descendants of the Acadian French, who were expelled from Acadia, now Nova Scotia, when it became British and they wouldn't swear allegiance to the British crown.†   (source)
  • "I hope I won't be expelled."†   (source)
  • If you want to say that you have to rid yourself of a big smelly one then I suggest you say something like this: 'Pig, I think that in a few moments I will expel much flatus.'†   (source)
  • I implore you to expel him immediately from the premises unless you want to have a riot on your hands.†   (source)
  • When I ran into one of them after my expulsion, I thanked him for his support.†   (source)
  • And then, too, it is a nearly wondrous sensation, between hacks, for just as I've expelled every last ounce of breath, nearly coughed out a whole lung, there's also a feeling of something like purity again, a razing and renewal, as if I might wholly banish all that I was just a moment ago.†   (source)
  • It was Raphael, however, who made them famous, in his painting of Pope Leo the Tenth, the four-eyed son of Lorenzo de Medici, the one who expelled Martin Luther.†   (source)
  • Or even if they were, the people who did them were not expelled or punished.†   (source)
  • And he sees them all again—Truan, Van Buren, Genthe—all watching; the parking lot a huge stage lit up and Mr. Knight telling his father they must expel him.†   (source)
  • I got expelled.†   (source)
  • After the war with Persia, Sparta demanded some cities be expelled from the confederacy for being unfaithful.†   (source)
  • It is, however, a thought that we quickly expel from our minds.†   (source)
  • It was our escape from the hunters who were threatening to expel every single one of our kind from the earth.†   (source)
  • For she didn't just breathe; she inhaled, then stopped, then expelled the air in a little burst.†   (source)
  • Napoleon and de Maurepas would lead the French army to disaster, such a disaster as might well bring down a government, and lead to a curbing of the King's authority, even an expulsion of the monarchy, as the English so wisely did a century and a half before.†   (source)
  • Laboring, this woman who had carried her child as a foreign growth that sickened her every day, expelled it at last.†   (source)
  • One night, however, just before my expulsion from the McGraw-Hill empire, I experienced a violent reversal of emotions which caused me never to gaze down into the garden again.†   (source)
  • And what has saved you on more than one occasion here at Perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to.†   (source)
  • He wanted to kill me and was willing to risk expulsion from school to do it.†   (source)
  • Of that whole period of upheaval in Africa—the expulsion of the Arabs, the expansion of Europe, the parcelling out of the continent—that is the only family story I have.†   (source)
  • He expelled the air and his lips combed the rushing sigh.†   (source)
  • He did meet with Dharma, who may expel a dreamer from his dream.†   (source)
  • As a schoolboy he had been expelled for helping political prisoners escape; he had then tried several art schools, but in the end had become a student of the humanities.†   (source)
  • Even after he began to drink and they had to expel him, they wrote us how sorry they were, because he was so likable and such a brilliant student.†   (source)
  • His arguments apparently had little effect on the New York Legislature, which expelled the Socialists and outlawed their party.†   (source)
  • It was not only what expelled some shadow of Mr. Bitts, and pressed poor Mr. Mabry to search the street-it was the air's and the earth's fuming breath, it could come and go.†   (source)
  • She watched the blue sky of Mars as if it might at any moment grip in on itself, contract, and expel a shining miracle down upon the sand.†   (source)
  • It continued for a long time, while she waited for each soft expulsion of breath.†   (source)
  • For the first time since the expulsion of Jones, there was something resembling a rebellion.   (source)
    expulsion = the act of forcing out
  • In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement.   (source)
  • In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.   (source)
  • On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all.   (source)
  • Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick.   (source)
  • And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.   (source)
  • Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now.   (source)
  • Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money — had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled?   (source)
    expelled = forced out
  • And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated.   (source)
    expulsion = the act of forcing out
  • Breathe in to the count of five, hold, expel.†   (source)
  • I can get expelled before I even start the school year.†   (source)
  • His expulsion from the Party created a vacuum that a number of hopefuls were jockeying to fill.†   (source)
  • Had we expelled him before the semester, he could have tried to enroll in another school.†   (source)
  • I'd hate to get expelled, but you have to take your lumps.†   (source)
  • Serena Joy, who has been holding her breath, expels it.†   (source)
  • 'Well, well, well — I came here tonight expecting to expel Potter and instead —'†   (source)
  • Isabelle, wobbling on her sandals, expelled a gusty sigh.†   (source)
  • Do you see any of those wusses getting expelled?†   (source)
  • Course, I never was great shakes at magic, really… but at least he never saw me expelled.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth, expelled the biting vapor he could taste as it formed on his tongue.†   (source)
  • Most unfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not rest with me.†   (source)
  • No, Miss Muffett would expel her and Atticus would send her off somewhere.†   (source)
  • "At least you hadn't been expelled from school."†   (source)
  • She didn't mention anything about my getting expelled.†   (source)
  • Before this, the school administration would have automatically suspended or expelled the students.†   (source)
  • Trust me, I'm an expert at getting expelled.†   (source)
  • "They wouldn't expel you," I said easily "You're guilty of Willful Collusion at the very most.†   (source)
  • "Josh hasn't been expelled, and he's been skipping classes for a lot longer.†   (source)
  • Had their joke succeeded, he would have been expelled from Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • Bending low so that only Harry could hear her, she hissed, "You should be expelled for that.†   (source)
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