expulsive

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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

Excessive respiratory movements in which at first the expansive efforts of the thoracic muscles, afterwards the expulsive efforts of the abdominal wall, are most violent. 

From Great Testimony against scientific cruelty by Coleridge, Stephen

Surely because, to use the forcible language of Chalmers, “the expulsive power of a superior affection” had begun to make such exhibitions distasteful to him.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.

And while effusive utterance is always the prevalent mode, it will give place to the expulsive mode or to the explosive, when energy of thought or force of passion requires it so.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

If, however, the labor is still tedious, the calf may be grasped with both hands, and as soon as a pain or expulsive effort is evident, draw the calf from side to side.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George