Example sentences for: cleansing

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

  • "Once the bombing commenced, I think then [Slobodan] Milosevic unleashed his forces, and then that's when the slaughtering and the massive ethnic cleansing really started," Nickles said at a news conference after appearing on Meet the Press . "The administration's campaign has been a disaster.

  • His major political achievement has been cleansing the Democrats of their previous, not-unjustified image as the pro-dole party.

  • Its very first sentence throws down the moral gauntlet: "Six months after leading NATO into a 78-day air war campaign to stop 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo and serving notice that it would not let such human-rights atrocities go unchallenged again, the Clinton administration has decided to limit its military role."

  • "This attempt to place the relocation of Israelis to Judea and Samaria on the same moral plane as genocide and ethnic cleansing is obscene," the paper said in an editorial Monday.

  • Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic might benefit most from his death, since Arkan--indicted in 1997 on war crimes charges--was thought to know a great deal about Milosevic's involvement in "ethnic cleansing."


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