evict

Example Sentences

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Rights groups have been critical of some of Balen’s measures, saying they hurt the poor, such as clearing away street vendors from sidewalks and attempting to evict unauthorized settlements from public lands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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

The following year it deployed over 45,000 troops to help evict Iraq President Saddam Hussein's invading army from Kuwait in operation Desert Storm.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 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