cleansed
Example Sentences
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Maybe it’s because he was lucky enough to have his footprint cleansed a bit.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Could the political parties ever be cleansed of corruption? What place would African Americans have in American society? Would Native Americans survive at all, and at what cost to their embattled cultures?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I reclined in the exam chair as Shalom parted my hair into sections and cleansed the area with an antiseptic liquid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
“That cleansed the space of a lot of weaker companies,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
For he shaved our skull, and cleansed our wound and bound it neat with bandages stolen from the home of an unsuspecting leader of the mob, ha!
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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