All 4 Uses of
expel
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- That stubborn Gypsy would have stayed and your little friend who likes to play with fire would have been very badly burned—expelled, ruined socially, whispered about for the rest of her life.†
Chpt 11 *expelled = forced out
- We'd be expelled, that's what.†
Chpt 12
- "Yes, Mademoiselle," I say, trying to expel as little breath as possible.†
Chpt 14expel = force out
- Fine, let them expel me.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
force out
especially in 2 primary senses:
- kicking someone out of an organization -- such as a school or country
- squeezing something to eliminate a liquid or gas