How to Use evict in a Sentence

evict

verb
  • His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon.
  • They were evicted from their apartment.
  • So who was evicted from the house?
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • You cannot be evicted from your home from one day to the next.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • They had been evicted from their house, and their car was stolen.
    — Paul Tough, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Vince then cast the sole vote to evict, and the vote was for Ava.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Rylie is evicted by a vote of 5-4.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Smith has twice filed in court this year to evict the woman, to no avail.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The court entered a judgment to evict him.
    — Donovan McCarty, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • But students are not allowed to evict them.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Unable to pay rent in jail, he got evicted.
    — Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That same year, one in 50 renters was evicted from their homes.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2019
  • If the payment is not made, state law says a landlord can evict you.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • This is your house, and the decision whether to evict him should be yours.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 23 June 2021
  • The primary tenant cannot evict you or force you out of your home.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • She is allowed to live in her apartment as long as she isn’t evicted.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The woman had been evicted from a trailer park.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • Doing so, Gross said, could lead the landlord to seek to evict you.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Cary said she was evicted from that apartment after her son left a hole in a wall.
    — John Russett, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And if a single payment was missed, they were evicted.
    — Tonika Lewis Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In exchange, landlords had to agree not to evict tenants for the next three months.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Before trying to evict bats, think about the timing.
    — Tara Hohoff, The Conversation, 28 May 2026
  • The father-in-law does not own the property and did not have the right to evict.
    — cleveland, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Gomberg fears that migrants who are evicted from city shelters will end up on the streets.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Even this concession roused the ire of the landlord class, which is poised and ready to evict.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Ava and Kelley were the two to vote to evict Ashley.
    — David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • She was evicted from one vote by Vince Panaro.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Highly doubt he can legally be evicted.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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