evict

Example Sentences

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In East Corinth: For “Beetlejuice,” the movie studio built the facade of a house where Michael Keaton’s character had to evict the newlydeads played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

They also point to other local regulations that make it challenging to evict tenants who don’t pay their rent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

If this were a tenant whom you didn’t know, you would evict them and pull your hair out over how anyone could feel so entitled as to take something for nothing.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

Ditto the city’s current rent regulation and a 2019 state law that requires landlords to demonstrate a “just cause” to evict tenants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan