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The phrase "almost expelled" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where someone was close to being expelled from a school, organization, or similar setting but ultimately was not. Example: "After several warnings about his behavior, he was almost expelled from the university for repeated violations of the code of conduct."
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The dean almost expelled a girl wearing an organdy blouse".
A few more times he is almost expelled, or separated, as they say, for failing the physical requirements.
School life had not been uneventful; he had been Eton's unofficial bookmaker (with a daily turnover of £30) and was almost expelled when discovered.
He was almost expelled from school for homosexuality and later boasted that at Oxford he slept with two future (male) Tory cabinet ministers.
Even as a teenage prodigy in the early 1980s at the Royal Ballet School, he risked everything when he was caught sniffing glue and almost expelled.
And as a role model, Mr. Levin cited his father, now a toy-store owner, who was almost expelled from the Putney School in Vermont for shouting anti-Vietnam slogans at Senator Robert F. Kennedy during an appearance there.
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In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye - I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.
"In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye -- I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled".
When Trump was in second grade, he punched his music teacher in the face "because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.
I almost got expelled from school because I was attending so few classes.
He joined the Communist party and was almost immediately expelled because of his criticism of its policy on the war.
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