How to Use expunge in a Sentence

expunge

verb

• Arpaio is appealing the ruling that refused to expunge his criminal record.
  — Jacques Billeaud, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• More than 52% had three or more, meaning the value of expunging one case might be negligible.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
• The first borrowers likely won’t have debt expunged until 2027.
  — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• Have you been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime, had an adjudication withheld or had a matter sealed or expunged?
  — Chad Klitzman, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• Common needs include expunging a criminal record, help with job searches or maintenance issues on their block, Lee said.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Post-Tribune, 2 July 2018
• When teams compete in LAN events in person, under the glare of lights and cameras all around them, such mouse tricks would be relatively easy to spot and expunge.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• Long expunged from memory, the Horde is trending in Russia again, the subject of movies and a popular TV series.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• Poland’s then-prime minister, Leszek Miller, said the funds would expunge Western Europe’s failure to save the east from communism.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• The charges against King were dropped and the arrest expunged from his record.
  — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• Writing the book was a way to expunge that shame in some regard.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• For some, expunging the taint of the Saudis from the U.S. alliance system may be worth the price.
  — Mike Watson, National Review, 30 July 2019
• The city was ordered to pay him back wages and expunge the suspension.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
• The pardon was found by a judge to be valid, but Arpaio fought on to try to get his offense expunged from court records.
  — Peter Blumberg, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• Those who receive a pardon in the Buckeye State still have to ask a court to expunge or seal their record.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• The Steelers hope to expunge the memory of that 48-37 loss to the Browns in January’s wild-card round.
  — cleveland, 26 Oct. 2021
• The arrest has also since been expunged from Paige’s record.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2019
• If Miller does not commit any more crimes for the next year, the case will be expunged from his record, the Globe reported.
  — Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 20 July 2023
• Last August, the man accused of stalking Koehler asked a judge to expunge the stalking case.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2022
• McCabe asked the judge to compel the DOJ to provide him with back pay, his full pension, and to expunge his record.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
• Of these requests, 84% were expunged and removed from the BrokerCheck site.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2020
• The Steelers will also want to expunge the memory of their 48-37 loss at Heinz Field in the playoff game.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Much stronger than runners and stalkers, clickers are tough to kill and even tougher to expunge from your dreams.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
• From there, her record was expunged and police returned her $500.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• The defendants want the court to expunge the notice, the third item a judge is slated to take up at Wednesday’s court hearing.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Court costs were expunged for time served since his arrest and he will be given credit for that time.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2019
• Thanks to Proposition 207, if a court grants a request to expunge a charge: The case file and law-enforcement records is sealed.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
• When the charges against him were later dismissed, Lamar petitioned a judge to expunge his DNA from city records.
  — New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Aroma spent years trying to expunge films of her abuse from the Internet.
  — Charlie Campbell / Tokyo, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Sun reviewed documents showing the pipe bomb charge was ordered to be expunged in March 2021.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• Florida is one of the toughest states for someone trying to get records expunged or sealed, according to the Restoration of Rights Project.
  — Ivy Nyayieka, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024