Sample Sentences for
purge
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    Paul urged the church to purge sin and pursue sincerity and truth.
    purge = get rid of
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    He wanted to beat something, to cry, to scream, but all he could do was listen to Angel as she threw up the way she used to, the only way she knew to purge the tension of Jordan's presence in the house.  (source)
    purge = get rid of (things thought undesirable)
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    With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.  (source)
    purged = eliminated (got rid of)
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    I must purge my soul of today's sins.  (source)
    purge = get rid of
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    The night was cool and purged of immediate terror.†  (source)
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    Whatever the timing, once the idea entered my head there was no purging it.†  (source)
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    The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.  (source)
    purges = mass elimination of political enemies
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    For, let alone the god's express command, It were a scandal ye should leave unpurged The murder of a great man and your king, Nor track it home.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpurged means not and reverses the meaning of purged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His followers refer to him also as the Scourge of the All-Powerful, the Right Fist of the Invincible, the Purger of Iniquities, and the Defender of Virtue and Justice.†  (source)
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    Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.  (source)
    purgers = people who get rid of things thought undesirable
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    So our first priority is to purge the Redemptionists from the Organization.†  (source)
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    The next morning Dad purged our fridge of milk, yogurt and cheese, and that evening when he came home, his truck was loaded with fifty gallons of honey.†  (source)
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    How had any of these books escaped the purging fires ten years ago?†  (source)
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