All 11 Uses
expel
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- I thought of the glee certain folks at home would feel if I were expelled.†
Chpt 4 *expelled = forced out
- I sat thinking of the dread possibility of having to leave all this, of being expelled; imagining the return home and the rebukes of my parents.†
Chpt 5
- I stood in that darkened doorway trying to probe my future if I were expelled.†
Chpt 5
- Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew that I would pay for it, knew that I would be expelled, and the very idea stabbed my insides again.†
Chpt 6
- No, sir, it might make them feel too bad if I told them I was expelled, so I plan to write them after I get there and get a job ....†
Chpt 6
- I recalled my expulsion, feeling quick anger and attempting to suppress it immediately; but now I was not quite successful, my resentment stuck out at the edges, making me uncomfortable.†
Chpt 8expulsion = the act of forcing out
- "Some things are just too unjust for words," he said, expelling a plume of smoke, "and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.†
Chpt 9expelling = forcing out
- My dear Mr. Emerson: The bearer of this letter is a former student of ours (I say former because he shall never, under any circumstances, be enrolled as a student here again) who has been expelled for a most serious defection from our strictest rules of deportment.†
Chpt 9expelled = forced out
- Due, however, to circumstances the nature of which I shall explain to you in person on the occasion of the next meeting of the board, it is to the best interests of the college that this young man have no knowledge of the finality of his expulsion.†
Chpt 9expulsion = the act of forcing out
- I took a man for a drive, showed him into the Golden Day to help him when he became ill ...I don't know I told him falteringly of the visit to Trueblood's and the trip to the Golden Day and of my expulsion, watching his mobile face reflecting his reaction to each detail.†
Chpt 9
- The air seemed to grow thick with fine white gnats, filling my eyes, boiling so thickly that the dark trumpeter breathed them in and expelled them through the bell of his golden horn, a live white cloud mixing with the tones upon the torpid air.†
Chpt 11expelled = forced out
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)