Crossword-Solution: EXPULSIVE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Expulsive a. Having the power of driving out or away; serving to
expel.

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tending or serving to expel 1 answer
extrusive 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with EXPULSIVE (5)

This is an example of what you have already heard of as the “expulsive power of a higher affection.” But be the affection high or low, it makes no difference, so long as the excitement it brings be strong enough.
The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 2014
The virtue expulsive or animal, From thilke virtue called natural, Nor may the venom voide, nor expel The pipes of his lungs began to swell And every lacert* in his breast adown *sinew, muscle Is shent* with venom and corruption.
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 2000
This roof itself is formed of fragments of rock carried down, of enormous stones, as if by some giant's hand; but at one time the expulsive force was greater than usual, and this block, like the falling keystone of a ruined arch, has slipped down to the ground and blocked up the way.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 2003
Chalmers calls "the expulsive power of a new affection;" that is, that he would try and fall in love with some other girl as soon as possible.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures John S. C. Abbott 2003
Land's sakes, but I hope that woman is expulsive enough! Them entrained nurses always cost a lot, I guess.
Dawn Eleanor H. Porter 2004

Quotes with EXPULSIVE (2)

In short, the Lord's Supper was the realization of new social and political arrangements, the embodiment of the social leveling seen in Jesus' ministry, most profoundly in his acts of table fellowship. Importantly, as we have seen, these new social arrangements could only be achieved if the emotions of social stratification were confronted, eliminated, or reinterpreted. In his body metaphor, Paul dramatically reframes these heretical emotions, the emotions of contempt, disgus…
Richard Beck Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul. The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015
David Brooks