Sentence examples for to expiate from inspiring English sources

2. To cleanse or purge from a crime or sin with religious rites, to make expiation or atonement for, to expiate, purify, atone for, lustrate, = expiare, lustrare (poet. and in post-Aug.

It cannot wait to expiate its evil.

He has attempted to expiate his guilt.

To expiate it the King gave the bard a dagger.

Inherent to its intractable nature is the struggle to hide, to overcome, to expiate.

Some in Minot now think of Dr. Bierenbaum's good works as an effort to expiate guilt.

He is trekking 1000km to Santiago de Compostela to expiate unknown sins.

And I can't go mentioning them every week to expiate my guilt, can I?

My strong guess is that he doesn't think he has anything to expiate".

TODAY'S Mr. Sharon does not recognize or feel the need to expiate any sin.

It will take more than a hearing to expiate the pattern of profiling.