How to Use evict in a Sentence

evict

verb
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  • His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon.
  • They were evicted from their apartment.
  • Hence, the lender was able to evict you and sell the home.
    — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
  • The city of San Diego moved to evict most tenants from structures in 1987.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Doing so, Gross said, could lead the landlord to seek to evict you.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Think of a household in a tough stretch that can’t cover next month’s rent and is evicted.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Metro Phoenix landlords moved to evict hundreds more renters in April than March.
    — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • If a judgment sides with the landlord, the tenant can be evicted.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
  • The team turned out to have been evicted from a hotel for nonpayment.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Gomberg fears that migrants who are evicted from city shelters will end up on the streets.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • He was being kept as a pet, the owner was evicted and the sanctuary took in the sick pig and nursed him back to health.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • She is allowed to live in her apartment as long as she isn’t evicted.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The man described Floyd as a blind senior who was close to being evicted.
    — Alexandra Duggan, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Not great screenplays, but decent enough ideas to not have me get evicted.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Landlords moved to evict more metro Phoenix renters in July than any month since the Great Recession.
    — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The report said the other tenants were supposed to be evicted.
    — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The second time the State’s Attorney’s Office was evicted was in 2014.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Hardin was on the wrong side of a blindside last episode, as his fellow houseguests voted to evict Red Utley 8-2.
    — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2023
  • If the purchaser misses a payment, the seller has the power to evict in as little as 60 days.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The seller could then evict the buyer after as little as 60 days.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The family had been evicted and was running out of time to find another place to live.
    — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The landlord is now in the process of evicting him -- not only because of the lies, but also because the hoarding level of filth has damaged the house.
    — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The measure would restrict the ability of landlords to evict tenants in market-rate units.
    — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Heisenberg is just one such pet that was brought to AHS in April after his family was evicted.
    — The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • This means that even if a tenant wins the case or a landlord decides not to evict, just the existence of the filing can cause problems for the tenant in the future.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And the heavy gas giants are the hardest to evict from their systems, much as a bowling ball would be the hardest object to knock off a billiard table.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Residents of Chavez Ravine were evicted and homes were demolished in 1959 to make way for the new stadium.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the Afghans who were evicted from Pakistan at the end of 2023 had never been to Afghanistan; they were born and raised in the country that gave their families shelter from the chaos across the border.
    — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Gay and transgender people have been evicted by landlords, as required by the law.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Police said Brown also attempted to evict the victim from the home by locking her out.
    — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2022

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