All 12 Uses
eviction
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- If it goes two weeks, eviction proceedings commence and legal fees swiftly pile up.†
Chpt 2 *eviction = the process of forcing someone to leave a place
- The apartment was far beyond Barbara's minimumwage means, and six months later the eviction crew arrived.†
Chpt 2
- More apartments and more evictions followed for mother and son before a move back to the dreaded house on 15th Street.†
Chpt 2
- Through the translucent oval in the envelope she can see the block letters "Notice of Eviction."†
Chpt 12eviction = the process of forcing someone to leave a place
- Barac sent one of its men to lay it all out: how Ms. Barbara Jennings failed to make her $452 payment on December 1 and, on December 15, Barac initiated eviction proceedings.†
Chpt 12
- But a few days ago, on February 15, no check for $904 had arrived at Barac, and the landlord restarted the eviction clock.†
Chpt 12
- Ma'am, my name is Steve Turner from the U.S. Marshall's Service and I'm here to evict you from these premises.†
Chpt 14evict = force someone to leave
- She knows too well how the clock, which has been running for three months since the eviction order was first issued, continues to tick until all of the tenants' worldly goods are moved from the landlord's property to the closest public area, generally the nearest open spot of sidewalk.†
Chpt 14eviction = the process of forcing someone to leave a place
- "No one touch or take anything, until the eviction is complete," he says, holding up his palms in a calming gesture.†
Chpt 14
- It's been three days since the near eviction, three days of jumbled emotions in which he hasn't spoken to his mother.†
Chpt 14
- Standing in the ruins of her near eviction, she said it was time to take care of herself, to do something other than martyr her life to Cedric's escape and success.†
Chpt Epil.
- Ten months later, facing yawning debts that included Neddy's loan for the back rent, she was evicted.†
Chpt Epil.evicted = forced someone to leave
Definitions:
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(1)
(eviction) the process of forcing someone to leave a place -- typically from a home due to non-payment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)