Example Sentences

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“Your soul is pure, but every second in this place will corrupt it,” Zizo cryptically warns him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Besides, parents who fear that exposure to controversial ideas or images will corrupt their youngsters are perhaps demonstrating, as the notorious Mr. Wilde observed, their own shame.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2022

They agonize that the alliance with power will corrupt them, and that, as they are recognized, accepted and used, they will cease being creative, critical and useful.

From Time Magazine Archive

What it does not disrupt it will corrupt.

From Time Magazine Archive

He began to form a plan at once, saying to himself “That is the thing to do—I will corrupt the town.”

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Twain, Mark