expiates
Example Sentences
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At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he renounces his desires, and expiates the sin of being alive by retirement from the world.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
There she expiates her wrong-doing by a life of devotion and expresses the utmost affection for me.
From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de
Such is the story of the Boblink; once spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the meadows, and the favourite bird of spring; finally a gross little sensualist who expiates his sensuality in the larder.
From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry
