All 10 Uses of
expel
in
Animal Farm
- Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs.
p. 20..6 *expelled = forced to leave
- In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement.
p. 54..5expulsion = the act of forcing out
- 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.
p. 57..3
- 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?
p. 63..7expelled = forced out
- 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.
p. 70..2expulsion = the act of forcing out
- For the first time since the expulsion of Jones, there was something resembling a rebellion.
p. 76..6
- 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.
p. 83..8
- 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.
p. 84..9
- 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.
p. 130..5
- 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.
p. 131..4
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