Example Sentences

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Many who struggle to recover from their illness seem to harbor the pathogen long after other patients have purged it, perhaps goading the immune system into prolonging its frantic inflammatory siege.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020

Jurisdictions previously covered by the now-defunct preclearance provision have closed at least 1,688 polling places and have purged voters at a rate 40 percent higher than that in other jurisdictions.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2019

Government investigators now occupy the cleric’s main temple in Beijing, and they have purged his cadre of loyal monks and are scouring his books for financial wrongdoing.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2018

Jones had a large stake, as social media and streaming platforms have purged much of his content and channels that peddle news and opinions from his conspiracy theory-laden website Infowars.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2018

The gods forgive me! in that, while I have purged my legions of drunkards and adulterers, I have left them in the temples.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William