dislodgment

NOUN
  1. forced removal from a position of advantage
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How To Use dislodgment In A Sentence

  • Morgan with an expression of insolence such as might well warrant the belief that he held feud with all grangers and made their discomfiture, dislodgment, and extermination the chief business of his life. Trail's End
  • They researched membrane's dust dislodgment and properties, such as electrical conductivity, combustion and fatigue resistance, which is made from all kinds of fiber materials.
  • Bahama Islands had become a rendezvous for pirates, and a few years later, King George the First issued a proclamation for their dislodgment. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
  • If it be low down the gullet, and other means fail, its dislodgment may sometimes be effected by dashing cold water on the spine, or vomiting may be induced by an emetic of sulphate of zinc Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • But the floods of the wet season maintain an unceasing cataract to its dislodgment, and then, according to the legends of the blacks, it begins to “walk about.” Tropic Days
  • -- In case of Choking, a violent slap with the open hand between the shoulders of the sufferer will often effect a dislodgment. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • Migration or dislodgment of the balloons was found in two cases.
  • The dislodgment of any large portion of this "centering" naturally causes collapse, unless it is caught, in which case the void in the "centering" is filled from the material in the sustaining arch, and this, in turn, is filled from that above, and so on, until the stability of each arch is in turn finally established. Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910
  • Teh First Rule of Princesses states that 'None shall dare touch Teh Jewel Encrusted Tiara of Teh Princess nor besmirch her honour through any act which results in dislodgment from the carefully tended coiffure of Teh Princess'. In Memoriam.
  • As a rule, the creatures of the wilderness, too, let him strictly alone, knowing well the deadly work of his quills, which, when embedded in the flesh, sink deeper and deeper with every frantic effort toward dislodgment. Followers of the Trail
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