Purging is an English word with synonyms like clearing or purge. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Purging meaning
present participle and gerund of purge
Using Purging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of purge
- Useful related words include: clearing, purge, purgatorial, purifying.
- In the example corpus, purging often appears in combinations such as: purging of, purging the, the purging.
Context around Purging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Purging
- In this selection, "purging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, begin, pore, hand, accounts, salicylic and government stand out and add context to how "purging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a self purging and a symbolic purging of impurity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "purging" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with purging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It will be effectively a self-purging. (7 words)
He was released before Christmas, without purging his contempt. (9 words)
This purging of Black professors and Black studies is doing real damage. (12 words)
A Texan town near Houston is purging its water for 60 days: The city is attempting to clear any "old water" from its system after a six-year-old boy tragically died from brain-eating amoeba found in the city's water. (42 words)
During Georgia governor’s race two years ago, Democrats alleged that then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp put his thumb on the scale to assure his own victory against Stacey Abrams, including by changing polling sites and purging voter rolls. (40 words)
The experience has cemented Miller’s view that, over the next four years, purging the city of short-term holiday homes that could otherwise be on the permanent rental market must be one of her top priorities. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although the company said it could begin purging accounts on Dec. 1, it may not eliminate all of them immediately.
Egypt has so far resisted, wary of complicity in the purging of fellow-Arabs and of seeding its own refugee quagmire.
He was released before Christmas, without purging his contempt.
It's the only (and I mean only) formula that contains pore-purging salicylic acid but doesn't spur flare-ups or dryness with my sensitive skin, which makes it a national treasure in my opinion.
Most of the time, these shows would end up vanishing into the void, much like the various titles streamers have been purging from their platforms of late.
That Honda handles such goofiness with an unrelentingly poetic hand, purging his nation’s psychological grief in broadly intimate volleys, is nothing short of astounding.
That letter recommended return of confiscated computers, servers, telephones and records to the newspaper, the purging of newspaper records retained by the police department and initiation of a transparent inquiry into the department’s conduct.
The only way to effectively respond is to do our purging at the ballot box in numbers that cannot be disputed.
This purging of Black professors and Black studies is doing real damage.
Preoccupied with purging the Left, the Stalinists ignored this simmering conflict for a while.
The experience has cemented Miller’s view that, over the next four years, purging the city of short-term holiday homes that could otherwise be on the permanent rental market must be one of her top priorities.
The government has been purging what it says are false entries, including duplicate names and cases of people who are dead or discovered to be alive at home or in jails.
The plan has a range of objectives, from purging government workers considered disloyal to Trump, to restricting abortion and contraception access, to rolling back some civil rights legislation.
The ritual search for chametz, or leavened products, on the eve of Passover serves as a symbolic purging of impurity, reinforcing the theme of liberation from bondage.
A Texan town near Houston is purging its water for 60 days: The city is attempting to clear any "old water" from its system after a six-year-old boy tragically died from brain-eating amoeba found in the city's water.
During Georgia governor’s race two years ago, Democrats alleged that then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp put his thumb on the scale to assure his own victory against Stacey Abrams, including by changing polling sites and purging voter rolls.
Even before their unhappy marriage, she begins cycles of bulimia: binge-eating and then purging herself of food.
However, Abrams contends that Kemp had actively disenfranchised minority voters through denying and delaying voter registration and purging the voter rolls during his time as secretary of state.
I heard Greg Palast talking about the issue of voter purging in Georgia and Wisconsin on Thom Hartmann’s show.
It will be effectively a self-purging.
Common combinations with purging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- purging of 17×
- purging the 11×
- the purging 9×
- and purging 8×
- by purging 6×
- of purging 4×
- purging its 3×
- purging in 3×
- purging itself 3×
- was purging 3×