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
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
Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having thus partly turned the Confederate position on our left, Sherman hoped that McPherson might complete their dislodgment by a similar flanking movement through Dallas on our right.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
In fact, the dislodgment along our coast and in our mountains of the boarder by the cottager is to-day the great summer tragedy of American life.
From Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
