Sample Sentences forexpunge (editor-reviewed)
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In our state, you cannot expunge a conviction for most Class A and Class B felonies.expunge = completely remove (the record of)
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If she doesn't get into any more trouble, it'll be expunged from her record. (source)expunged = removed completely
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It lurks beneath the surface of the water, expunging any sense of its presence. (source)expunging = removing completely
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The story goes on to say that Bobby Kennedy appealed to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to expunge those records.† (source)
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And so, slipping his sister's scissors into his pocket, the Count looked once more at what heirlooms remained and then expunged them from his heartache forever.† (source)
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And I knew then, in my very mention of it, that I would return to London and fight to undo the expunging of my name, that I would devote myself wholly to the project and seek some credit for it.† (source)
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The violators expunged.† (source)
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You must expunge yourself of this ...this torpor.† (source)
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But the Virginia Legislature, dominated by Jackson's friends and Tyler's foes, and influenced by the sentimental feeling that the President should be permitted to retire without this permanent blot on his record, instructed its Senators to support the expunging resolution.† (source)
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She felt obliterated, expunged from the room, and was relieved.† (source)
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He did so once or twice an hour, if only to clear his mind and expunge the empty insanities he had been required to mouth during the past minutes.† (source)
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Once divorced, twice expelled from school, once fled from same, many times estranged from parents, thrice charged with petty larceny, once emergency-roomed for barbiturate overdose, once experimentally wrist-slashed, many times avomit on the pavement outside a bar—the shoplifting charges expunged from the record thanks to influential friends of dad.† (source)
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Bachelli was lost in the memory of boarding his troop ship in Naples in 1934; he was a young officer again in the 230th Legion of the National Fascist Militia, off to fight for Il Duce, off to capture Abyssinia, off to expunge the shame of being defeated at the battle of Adowa by Emperor Menelik in 1896.† (source)
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Whatever affection your mother once had for Morzan had vanished by then, expunged by his cruel treatment of her and their newborn child, Murtagh.† (source)
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(CAYLEY, HENSON, LILLIENTHAL, CHANUTE, LANGLEY, WRIGHT, TURNBUL AND S&ERSON) EXPUNGE† (source)
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Under that light, he saw the process of corruption anticipated, saw the flesh in which he moved decomposed, expunged, dissolved into airy nothingness—and inside was the delicately turned skeleton of his right hand and around the last joint of the ring finger, dangling black and loose, the signet ring his grandfather had bequeathed him: a hard thing, this ore with which man adorns a body predestined to melt away beneath it, so that it can be free again and move on to yet other flesh that may bear it for a while.† (source)
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