Example Sentences

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Unbeknown to the authors, the editor had expunged any references to faith from the book.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

I thought that journalism had expunged all of my emotional fandom.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2017

After about five months, some of the bacteria couldn't survive without chlorouracil and they had expunged roughly 90% of the thymine from their genomes.

From Nature • Nov. 21, 2012

That was too much for Thatcher, whose proud boast was that she had expunged every trace of the third zero.

From Time Magazine Archive

He believed he had expunged Jasper from his mind, but the recollection had still power to pain him.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John