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
Everywhere throughout the South this expulsive process has already proceeded far and stiff proceeds apace.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
This expulsive action also affects the bladder: hence the frequent efforts to urinate.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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
It irritates the mucous membrane, already rendered somewhat hyperemic and tender by the inflammatory process at work, to have the breath pass over it in such an expulsive way.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
