Example Sentences

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He has cleansed the palate with back-to-back victories the last two seasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2014

The new boss has cleansed the club of most of the wasters we were lumbered with and is slowly building a team of players who really want to play for him and the club.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2010

"Then, when the Blood has cleansed us, what are we?"

From Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. by Shaw, Catharine

And their deeds shall find a record In the registry of Fame; For their blood has cleansed completely Every blot of Slavery's shame.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

He has achieved one sinister masterpiece, which has cleansed his bosom of much perilous Stuff.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon