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
The arch, already heavily cracked and depending solely for stability upon structural pressure, being further weakened by the dislodgment of that particular brick, showed signs of collapsing.
From Banked Fires by E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
Choking.—In case of Choking, a violent slap with the open hand between the shoulders of the sufferer will often effect a dislodgment.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
