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Example sentences for "expurgate"

Lexicographically close words:
expulsions; expulsive; expunge; expunged; expunging; expurgated; expurgation; expurgatory; exquisite; exquisitely
  1. If they are true, Bowdler is right to expurgate Shakespeare, and Noah Webster the Bible.

  2. But look at these sad sentences—a complete and felicitous statement of the whole modern doctrine—in the pages of a man I love and revere: “The literature of three centuries ago is not decent to be read; we expurgate it.

  3. In 1688 we find Don Juan de la Torre, whose patience was exhausted, obtaining from the Suprema a letter to the Valencia tribunal ordering it to expurgate a book of his and deliver it to him.

  4. In such a sense, belike, he might advise His brother to expurgate crime with .

  5. You of the West struggle to expurgate from the East its human passions.

  6. My mind simply will not expurgate an affront.


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