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
The daughter expiates her foolish love in a convent.
From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold
How bitterly the unfortunate sovereign expiates her former triumphs!
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
He expiates his crimes, at the close of a capital duel, by the hands of Colonel Morden, a relative of the Harlowe family, who has seen Clarissa die.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John
