expulsive

Example Sentences

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In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

But the term "apotropaic" is generally used of expulsive ceremonies in which a whole community takes part.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

What Chalmers called "the expulsive power of a new affection" in the cure of souls, is the precise method of operation in the cure of some bodily ills.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton

No serious steps were ever taken to carry out these expulsive measures, unless the obstruction of navigation of the Shimonoseki straits by the daimyō of Chōshū be regarded of this character.

From Japan by Murray, David

Pat looked after him for a moment with a great light of love in his eyes, and realized for the first time what was meant by the expulsive power of a new affection.

From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill