Example Sentences

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By making her return the love of the person called Charlot, he will expiate her hatred for Chavel.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will expiate the crime I have committed.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

I will expiate my fault in having forgotten this for a moment, by returning to the miserable cottage of my parents.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

Their suffering is my crime, and I will expiate it.

From Thais by Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)

O true believers, if ye fear GOD, he will grant you a distinction, and will expiate your sins from you, and will forgive you; for GOD is endued with great liberality.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George