emend

Example Sentences

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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

From The New Yorker

And it grows increasingly clear that the document in Voth’s hands has itself been “doctored”—emended, rectified, ardently ministered to, but also violated.

From The New Yorker

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

From The New Yorker

Then his naturalization was cancelled, and the form on file with the court was emended to read “member of the yellow race.”

From The New Yorker

The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”

From Time