purgative

Example Sentences

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The work took on an industrial, purgative edge.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

Taking out the trash is like administering a purgative to my house.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2019

The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2018

And this, too, felt like a purgative end to 2016.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

The doctor had given him a purgative and left.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler