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

One glimpse she caught and uttered a shriek of laughter, which threatened dislodgment of the stove-pipes.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

They alone had had the capping triumph of crossing the earth-works and effecting the hand-to-hand dislodgment of the enemy.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville