Example sentences for: purge

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

  • Punishment theories authorize communities to isolate or purge the “impure”—people whose illness or imagined “sinfulness” would contaminate the whole—while reassuring that virtue and social status will protect the righteous.

  • Khrushchev, the leader of the Jets, sang, "When you're a Red you're a Red all the way from your first party purge to your last power play."

  • 2) Salinger's New Agey wellness mania led him to purge after eating unhealthy foods.

  • The Guardian , in its main front-page lead, said that frantic government efforts to purge the Web of this sensitive information are "doomed to failure."

  • Bush's surrogates claim that he's leading a "heroic" effort "to purge the system of this 'gotcha' politics."


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