The foot pressed against the surface expels the air, and this fact, aided by the stickiness of the pad, enables the frog to hold on to even a vertical plane of glass.
Through the funnel the animal expels water from the mantle cavity, and thus propels itself through the water.
For in this life, when this conflict has arisen, either pain conquers and death expelsthe feeling of it, or nature conquers and health expels the pain.
Aphdal, the Fatimite, expels the sons of Ortok from Jerusalem.
Lothair II goes to Rome in support of Pope Innocent II against Antipope Anacletus II; he expels Conrad.
William Rufus expels Archbishop Anselm, from England in defiance of the papal legate.
Because milk at that time is very springy, expels fumosities, and, as it were, purges at that time.
Because it eases and lightens the body, clears the mind, comforts the head and senses, and expels melancholy.
The natural motion is, when the womb attracts the male seed, or expels the infant, and the symptomatical motion, of which we are speaking, is a convulsive drawing up of the womb.
He drives one and all from their ancestral houses and expels husbandmen from farms so long theirs.
The tube may be too small, and this may be recognized by the ease with which it passes; as a result, the first strong cough expels it out of the larynx, and another must be introduced.
In some cases mere incision of the capsule is sufficient, and the uterus expels the growth later on.
The two eldest are jealous, and announce to their father their intention of declaring war against him, unless heexpels their younger brother Ireg from the palace.
The ingredients are then pressed to extract the remaining liquid; or they are washed or 'sparged' with hot water, which expels it by displacement.
On inclining the apparatus the acid escapes over the side of the small tube, and mixing with the liquor in the flask, expels the carbonic acid of the carbonate, which is then dried by passing over the chloride of calcium.
It purges, and in 5 or 6 hours frequently expels the worm; if this does not take place, it should be persevered in.
Ice will not imbibe this air, and therefore freezing expels it from water.
But it is usually procured from nitre by means of the vitriolic acid, which, seizing its base, expels the nitrous acid in a liquid form.
You see Ahasuerus how well he bears His loss; a new love soonexpels his cares; This cure in this disease doth seldom fail, One nail best driveth out another nail.
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.
One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
It expels the gout, that enemy of pleasure, although to pleasure gout owes its birth; it facilitates digestion, without which there can be no true happiness.
Whilst the gold is being weighed to them, Camillus, who had been appointed dictator, arrives with an army, expels the Gauls, and destroys their army.
Having then crossed the fortifications, he expels from the camp the crowd who were dismayed and inclining towards one direction.
The monamines are similar to ammonia in their reactions; some of them are stronger bases; for instance, ethylamine expels ammonia from its salts.
Cytisine is a strong base; it precipitates the earths and oxides of the heavy metals from solutions of the chlorides, and, even in the cold, expels ammonia from its combinations.
When the sting is inserted, the bladder contracts, and expels the poison through the hollow sting into the wound.
And, being prevented from effecting an expulsion downwards when the severest part of the inflammation is there, it expels the matter into the adjoining part of the intestines situated above.
There is a process of oxidation going on within the sponge in a manner somewhat as we find it in ordinary animal life, and like the animal it expelscarbon dioxide.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus expels them from the rustic tribes, where they had been again introduced, and unites them in one sole urban tribe, the Esquiline.
Est] Lysimachus and Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, wrest Macedonia from Demetrius Poliorcetes; immediately after, Lysimachus expels Pyrrhus.
Pyrrhus expels the Carthaginians from most of their possessions in Sicily.
This acid does not even expel carbonic acid in the wet way, but in a glowing heat it expels the strongest volatile acids.
Notwithstanding that antimonic acid is insoluble in water, it expels the carbonic acid from the solutions of the carbonates of the alkalies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
