expurgated

Example Sentences

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And with the exception of that expurgated Benchley quote, its advertising eschewed pull quotes, focusing instead on the show’s popularity: “Hundreds have seen ‘Abie’ three times or more.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

Only an expurgated 500-page executive summary has been made public.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2019

As Marina Warner wrote in her book Stranger Magic, “Galland transformed his sources, his fluent prose adding politesse and polish. … He expurgated the eroticism that heightens many passages in the original.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2019

“To consent would be an admission that the expurgated parts are not indispensable,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018

She had gotten used to the nuns, a literature of appropriate sentiments, poems with a message, expurgated texts.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez