Example Sentences

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There was high-speed Wi-Fi throughout and a filtration system to ensure that every tap and shower had purified water.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2014

Buddha had purified all his karma and escaped the cycle of birth and death due to karma.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2010

Chemists had purified it, changed its consistency and injected it with Vitamin A. They had reduced the size of its water particles so that, when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the Society of Friends had purified itself from slave-holding, it gradually subsided into a state of rest, and finally lapsed into lethargy and indifference on this question.

From A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Sturge, Joseph

She had passed through a baptism of fire, and though it had blistered and scarred, it had purified her heart.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee