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

Pat looked after him for a moment with a great light of love in his eyes, and realized for the first time what was meant by the expulsive power of a new affection.

From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill

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.

Occasionally, long passages in music demand that the expulsive power of the breathing apparatus be used to its limit.

From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Fillebrown, Thomas

The lesions produced in the extreme expulsive efforts of the paroxysm form favorable niduses for the micro-organism.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)