Example sentences for: augean

How can you use “augean” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.

  • He sees political corruption not just as an Augean stable to be cleansed, but as a positive issue that can serve to re-engage the disaffected electorate.

  • In The New Yorker , Gore Vidal defends Seymour Hersh's Kennedy-bashing book: "The fact that [Hersh has] found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge is hardly his fault."

  • The shared idea of both kinds of tax reform is cleaning the Augean stables of the tax code.


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