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How to use the word purged in a Sentence?

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I haven’t binged or purged or restricted in years, and I feel very deeply and very strongly about saying I’ve finally recovered.

Jennette McCurdy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The account wouldn't even exist anymore, we purged our accounts in 1934.

My English teacher

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is not disenfranchisement at all. The person that has their vote taken away and has been purged -- that's the person we need to be fighting for, voters want us to be listening to them, and this is a way to show that we are listening -- to show that we are understanding the changes that had to be made after 2016.

Michael Blake

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a major upheaval in the army and the security forces and a lot of officers will be purged. How they will replace them (and) how they will train them are major issues, it is a major, major crisis.

Mustafa Akyol

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People don't know they've been purged until they go to the election site and get turned away, we need to make sure that people have voices.

Amos Project canvasser Marcia Mackey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Sharon Helman's removal is a positive step, but there are still many more VA scandal figures who also must be purged from the department's payroll in order for veterans and families to receive the closure they deserve.

Veterans Affairs

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

John Brown

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.

John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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