dislodgment
Example Sentences
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“These successful operations have culminated in the dislodgment of terrorists from towns and communities in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states,” military spokesman Chris Olukolade told the BBC.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2015
Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without and harassment from within.
From Time Magazine Archive
The arch, already heavily cracked and depending solely for stability upon structural pressure, being further weakened by the dislodgment of that particular brick, showed signs of collapsing.
From Banked Fires by E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
Entering public life with vehement aversion to the recent dislodgment of the landed aristocracy as the mainspring of parliamentary power, he lent himself to two further enormously extensive changes in the constitutional centre of gravity.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
