cleanse

Example Sentences

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Once, they brought in a shaman to cleanse the house with sage and cedar during a full blood moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

“No power, no justification, and no time can cleanse this great tragedy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

"For the rivers within us flow with ease, fears washed away, cleanse and purify. Come to peace with our tears and discover what it means to be alive," she says.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

It’s a feel-good story that helps cleanse the palate weeks after another viral incident took place in the stands at a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Miami Marlins in Florida.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

“We must cleanse our spirits for their coming. We must forgo shifgrethor, forbid all acts of vengeance, and unite together without envy as brothers of one Hearth.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin