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Example sentences for "evict"

Lexicographically close words:
everytime; everyway; everywhere; everywheres; eves; evicted; evicting; eviction; evictions; evidemment
  1. The people would have the upper hand, as they ought to have, and the first thing would be to evict the evictors.

  2. Malone declined to make any change, and as a last resort it was decided to evict him.

  3. In "The Troth" the theme is the shooting of a landlord by two peasants whom his agents are to evict on the morrow.

  4. Dermot was triumphant, and sent for more auxiliaries, aspiring to evict Roderic O'Connor of Connaught from the precarious throne of High King of Ireland.

  5. On well-guarded strongholds like Thanet or Sheppey in England, Noirmoutier at the Loire mouth, or the Isle of Walcheren, they defied the local magnates to evict them.

  6. In 1880 the government brought in a bill forbidding any landlord to evict a tenant without paying him "compensation for disturbance;" the bill was rejected by the House of Lords.

  7. Strafford proposed to take heavy fines from a few of the unfortunate landholders, and to wholly evict the rest from their ancestral estates.

  8. Meanwhile he took care to keep his party together, and steadfastly persevered in his very justifiable desire to evict the incapable Somerset from office.

  9. Accordingly the new lord commenced proceedings to evict the whole of the tenantry for non-title.

  10. A landlord said to me, 'No one in this part of the country would presume to evict a tenant now from fear of assassination.

  11. Withal the people of Ulster were full of hope that O'Neill would return with forces to evict the evicters, but the farther they advanced into this agreeable perspective, the more rapidly did its charms disappear.

  12. He never evicts a tenant, nor even threatens to evict those who vote against him.

  13. You ask me to evict respectable people who pay me rent?

  14. Some way, somehow, he must manage to evict these women.

  15. So perhaps Patrick did evict his Betters from that land of evictions; it may be so;--but not the God-life in the mountains.

  16. Thy Lord, verily, is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

  17. The attempt to evict the Coigeach crofters must also be mentioned.

  18. Mrs. Macdonell and her factor determined to evict every crofter on her property, to make room for sheep.

  19. Though, it is said, he did not evict any man directly, he is alleged to have made their positions so hot for them that they had to leave.

  20. The proprietor, on being asked, said that he did not evict any of the people.

  21. Some of the tenantry had refused to either pay or depart, and a move was on foot to use the English soldiery to evict the malcontents in a wholesale way.

  22. You will bring it on Monday, or I shall evict you," says the Squire quietly.

  23. We shall return to it later in considering how far the copyholder had security of tenure, and enjoyed legal protection against the lord who wished to evict him.

  24. Finally, the difficult question of the security of copyhold tenants as against the landlords who desired to evict them seems to have been put in the right perspective by the evidence which Dr.

  25. Buy them out or evict them, and then the two furlongs will consist of nothing but demesne land and glebe.

  26. I have not yet evicted any tenant, and if they go on as they are doing I may have to make no change; but should they fail to pay their rents as in times past, I must either evict the non-payers, or take the fishing into my own hands.

  27. They had struggled to put their pence and shillings together, and with some difficulty had met the question of the rent; but Andy Neil either could not or would not pay; and the Squire had got the law, as he expressed it, to evict the man.

  28. Thus a default in payment of one year's rent entitled a landlord to evict the tenant and get possession of the land, with all improvements on it, even where such improvements many times exceeded in value the amount due.

  29. The landlord who sought to evict a tenant holding under lease was, down to the year 1816, obliged to proceed in one of the Superior Courts of law, a practice which caused much expense and delay.

  30. No chief in Ireland could molest the people in their ancient privilege; he could neither evict them, nor take their grazing-lands, nor make a forest waste and impose a forest law for his hunting.

  31. You cannot," he said, "evict a whole nation.

  32. He must evict Zora's tenants as soon as the crops were planted and harvested.

  33. The consequence is that when Miss Gardiner again attempts to evict him she must incur the considerable cost of a new writ.

  34. There was no option but to evict them; the sub-sheriff must do his duty, backed by as large a body of constabulary as might be necessary.

  35. One day there is an ejectment at Ballycastle; the next an abortive attempt to evict at Cloontakilla.

  36. Years ago the land was let for electioneering purposes, akin to the creation of faggot votes, and a vast number of small holders became fixed upon land from which it is impossible to evict them.

  37. For if it were attempted to evict the Innisturk people the evictors would be accused of hurling an entire population into the sea.

  38. Owing to the agricultural depression of the times, the Marshalls could not collect their rents, and rather than evict their tenants they sold the estate to Mr. J.

  39. The inhabitants have paid no rents since the loss of the Wasp, which was sent to enforce payment or evict the tenants.

  40. Juliette's furniture had just been seized, and her landlord was threatening to evict her.

  41. He was resolved to conquer and evict that memory; he would not consciously put himself in the way of anything that recalled it.

  42. I'll leave the house as soon as you like--for the present--till we come back again with Harold and his policemen to evict you.

  43. Look heah, Georgey, are you going quietly, or must I ask these coppahs to evict you?

  44. It is this: The landlord, when he has made up his mind that he wants to rob a tenant of the land he once owned, and which he has, does not evict him in the Spring.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banish; cast; chase; chuck; dislodge; dismiss; disown; displace; dispossess; eject; eliminate; evict; exclude; exile; expel; expropriate; foreclose; oust; suspend; throw; turn