Explore Purgative through 2 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cathartic or laxative. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Purgative in a sentence
Purgative meaning
purging
Synonyms of Purgative
Using Purgative
- The main meaning on this page is: purging
- Useful related words include: cathartic, evacuant, laxative, physic.
Context around Purgative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Purgative
- In this selection, "purgative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include been more purgative than the and cathartic or purgative and extensive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "purgative" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with purgative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I don’t think any organisation has been more purgative than the police in cleaning up the bad eggs in their system. (22 words)
These treatments included multiple doses of calomel (a cathartic or purgative ), and extensive bloodletting (with at least 2.365 total liters of blood being taken, which is slightly less than half of a normal adult's blood volume). (38 words)
These treatments included multiple doses of calomel (a cathartic or purgative ), and extensive bloodletting (with at least 2.365 total liters of blood being taken, which is slightly less than half of a normal adult's blood volume). (38 words)
I don’t think any organisation has been more purgative than the police in cleaning up the bad eggs in their system. (22 words)
Example sentences (2)
I don’t think any organisation has been more purgative than the police in cleaning up the bad eggs in their system.
These treatments included multiple doses of calomel (a cathartic or purgative ), and extensive bloodletting (with at least 2.365 total liters of blood being taken, which is slightly less than half of a normal adult's blood volume).