shriven

Example Sentences

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Is it getting ready for our return to a shriven world, sadder, smaller but somehow more pure than before?

From Washington Post

Then I grab the lever, record myself with a manly fling, and walk out, shriven, to go to work.

From The New Yorker

The military has been shriven by spending cuts and is still not recovered from the humiliations suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From The Guardian

I mean the midlife crisis story, in which a man suddenly finds himself shriven of the beliefs that have hitherto defined him.

From New York Times

In his telling he was offering a new republic, shriven of racial hatreds and purged of poverty, built by farsighted technocrats and legislators upon mountains of federal cash.

From Economist