Example sentences for: dislodged

How can you use “dislodged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Oh, well, there's no way of avoiding the names: In my small clot of people dislodged swardward from the pier were Margaret Carlson, ICM agent Esther Newberg and her escort, newsman/artist John Johnson; illustrator/author/director Lane Smith; Buck Henry; Tony Schwartz; ???; ???; ???.

  • The resulting leaks dislodged four ceiling tiles, which in turn prompted a pull-out-the-stops rush to scour and re-cover the roof and ceiling before football season.

  • This campaign dislodged Western aid workers, several thousand U.S. troops stationed there, and a CIA outpost . It also provided an opportunity for Saddam's intelligence groups to infiltrate Kurdish ranks.

  • In response to Richard Lederer's “Gunning for the English Language” [XV, 1], Mr. Charles Kluth, Baltimore, points out that the difference between the coefficients of expansion of iron and brass—a mere 1/64th inch—would be insufficient to cause the (cannon) balls to be dislodged from a brass “monkey” and survive as a justification for the origin of cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey .

  • Certainly, though, most of these freaks will be dislodged and swept away by the passage of time while those already rooted in the French language, like smoking and week-end, have become naturalized and no longer jar in the Gallic ear.


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