How to Use purge in a Sentence

purge

1 of 2 verb

• High-ranking officials were purged from the company following the merger.
• Wipe the wand with a clean, damp rag, then purge again.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 10 Feb. 2023
• That has many Democrats ready to purge Manchin from their ranks.
  — Haris Alic, Fox News, 25 July 2022
• Police tried to purge traitors from their ranks — and went too far.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• And Android users should be aware of the steps to lock and purge data from the device in the event of theft.
  — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Then clean out the area, purge, assess and find a system that fits.
  — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• And to help my Ukrainian friends now sitting next to me to purge, too.
  — Vogue, 16 Mar. 2022
• Be sure to clean and dry the portafilter — and to purge and wipe down the milk frothing wand, if needed — when you’re done.
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
• By the end of last year, mention of live video and audio had been purged from Reddit’s IPO pitch.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
• But Death Valley did not purge me of my grief over my father.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
• Check out my story for more info on the content purge here.
  — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Her group vowed to seek new laws to purge voter rolls and to elect pro-Trump insurgents.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• For those people, Judge is a chance to purge the sins of baseball players past.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
• They're known to eat tough leaves and bitter plants to purge parasites from their guts.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2022
• Irwin believed David over-ate and drank too much on the trip to Japan, leading him to purge some of his food and choke on it.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
• In 1934, Hitler violently purged his own ranks in the infamous Night of the Long Knives.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• If both sides can fight the urge to purge, perhaps a similar outcome could be achieved on war and peace.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 13 Feb. 2022
• Pros: Easy to use, hard to overdo it Cons: Might cause purging among acne-prone types.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2023
• Kings have used it to exalt themselves, tyrants to decide which people to purge.
  — Maud Newton, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2022
• Separately, a bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk could purge the term from the state.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2022
• Unable to purge, a kind of mental pressure built up inside her.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Yes, spring is typically the time to purge everything that no longer feels right in your home.
  — Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health, 25 May 2022
• For as long as there has been art, artists have sought to depict astounding things and thus purge them from their troubled minds.
  — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022
• Daniel Deronda was quickly brought out in Hebrew, purged of most of the English chapters.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Part of the reason may be that some of these allergens are super tough to neutralize or purge.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
• Chen became the youngest deputy secretary in the corruption watchdog that Xi used to purge graft and rivals.
  — Pei-Lin Wu, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• That’s probably not a huge surprise, as Max has purged a great deal of content since the closing of the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger in 2022.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• The news is causing some users to worry that Google will purge YouTube videos and blog posts tied to deleted inactive accounts.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2023
• Murkowski was a top target for Trump, who has made this year's midterm cycle the lynchpin of his crusade to purge the GOP of any critics.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2022
• Hoping to start a new chapter after graduating, Demeter managed to quit purging on her own and thought she was cured.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024

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purge

2 of 2 noun

• But some in the industry say the purge may be healthy in the long run.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• Despite being the butt of many jokes, the group managed to secure just enough points to avoid the purge.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
• First came the purge that itinerant young adults know all too well.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
• No utopia awaits them at the end of their purge, only more misery and a fresh round of scapegoats.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Not a genteel purge but the full-boat Linda Blair, the contents of his dinner spraying the trees.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• He was ejected from the Party during the Johnson purge of 2019.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• At the time of the 1885 purge, Moon worked as a cook and manual laborer on a ranch on Redwood Creek.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
• All sorts of things are thrown into the fires, like wood, leaves and food, in a symbolic purge of evil and triumph of good.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• More recently, the purge of blue checks has led to a cultural change on the platform.
  — Amy O'Kruk, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
• This led to a purge of leaders, a host of morale issues, and less regulation.
  — Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
• The purge valve clears water easily, and the splash top helps keep minor chop from entering the tube.
  — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
• Recently, the Party has signalled that the purge of the private sector is over, but many have grown wary.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Somehow that move didn’t save the show from the Gunn/Safran DC property purge anarchy.
  — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2023
• The countdown clock for the great inactive Google account purge is ticking.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The board agreed that the purge would be kept under wraps until after the Forty-second Academy Awards.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
• Jay Garrick had been the Flash during the Golden Age, but his comics were canceled amid that postwar purge.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• The police purge is one in a series of high-profile breaks from Duterte-era policies over the past several months.
  — Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023
• And so it was hoisted by a helicopter and taken to a clean room there in Utah, and then there were tests done, and then there was a nitrogen purge.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• By that point, the purge of pro-life Democrats was nearly complete: Only one House Democrat voted against it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Nov. 2022
• The news that McGowan was leaving was greeted by most as a sign that there a franchise-wide purge was beginning.
  — oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2021
• After a year, Mao reversed course and launched a massive purge called the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• Fox would, in the end, wait until after Georgia to announce the purge, without attributing it to the Arizona call.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• Start with a purge of your possessions; clear out one drawer or cabinet at a time.
  — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
• Thankfully, Leone prided himself on the purge as his film continues to climb up-chuck in the box office.
  — Vulture, 15 Oct. 2022
• Musk allowed users to keep their legacy verified check marks until a mass purge April 20.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• If there were Polaroids, they have been lost to time or periodic bedroom purges.
  — Alice Robb, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2023
• Will the Arizona Board of Regents do the same to him or allow Robbins to direct the purge and subsequent recovery?
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• This week, people around the country are doing their own versions of Renault’s Vichy-water purge.
  — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Prigozhin’s connections among Russia’s elites are muddling any purge plans by Putin.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• The film recounts the story of a young woman who escapes an anti-Communist purge and leads a quiet life as the second wife of a wealthy man.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024