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
From the uppermost portion of the chromosphere great fiery tongues of glowing hydrogen and calcium vapour shoot out for many thousands of miles, driven outward by some prodigious expulsive force.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
"The expulsive power of a new affection" is not merely a happy phrase; it is a fact in every day life.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
This expulsive action also affects the bladder: hence the frequent efforts to urinate.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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 James Townley
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