Example Sentences

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Crawford busts up the little gathering and tattles to Davis: “Your girl was corrupting my twins.”

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2017

There were familiar disputes about whether De Quincey was corrupting the young, but the main intoxicant on display was his prose, which derived its power from being written in the grip of its subject.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

But as an independent writer, I’ve always thought playing those sorts of games was corrupting.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2016

He wasn't in thrall to wealth, but making a study of how it was corrupting the country he loved.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

Sōcratēs accūsātus est quod corrumperet juventūtem, Socrates was arraigned on the ground that he was corrupting the young.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)