expiate

Example Sentences

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He wanted to expiate “an immense weight of guilt” and determined to “submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants.”

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020

You repeat a trauma continually, until you expiate it.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

Titch wants to expiate the misdeeds of his childhood, and seeks the approval of his remote, inconstant father.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

She helps him expiate his guilt by contextualizing it in the story of his people.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2017

He also seemed to be trying to do something more than expiate guilt.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden