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

This will appear if we consider what has been called "the expulsive power of a new affection."

From The Ministry of the Spirit by Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson)

The labor pains then come on; and by the expulsive power of the womb, the fœtus, with the membranes enveloping it, is pushed forward.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

I have rarely seen stronger expulsive pains than she had towards the last; the arch of the pubes being rather contracted, and the child full-sized.

From Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness by Townley, James

It was clear that I had not yet reached the age of the grand expulsive passion which ignores partage.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)