Example Sentences

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“I simply cannot help worrying that, in the process of waging this war, we are corrupting ourselves,” he wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 1966.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

This is a power, and powers are corrupting influences.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2020

The opportunities that arise, to compete for the attention of the publishers and production companies that now want their stories, are corrupting, not ennobling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

This is not to say caution is not warranted, but the notion that standardized tests in general are corrupting our public schools does not square with what I know about the teaching profession.

From US News • May 10, 2016

“He says that you are corrupting the party with your ideas,” I was told.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright