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 Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)

McWhinnie, in The Lancet, records a case of dislodgment of an enlarged liver from tight lacing.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)