expiate

How To Use expiate In A Sentence

• Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
• His grin expiated his looks, making anyone in range of his searchlight smile feel that they were interesting to know. A Small Death in the Great Glen
• He hoped to expiate his guilt.
• Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.
• This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
• Is the idea of a tense trip homeward, haunted by some unexpiated act, alien to the Bible? The Muse in the Machine
• We feel a tinge of guilt that we expiate in this season of giving. William Grassie: Christmas From The Outside In: A Meditation
• In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
• The Israelis left behind rose-colored Arabic-language leaflets stating that persons from Beit Jalla killed a young Jewish woman near Beit Vaghan after committing against her a crime that will never be expiated. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
• In speaking of criminal justice it states that the punishment should be ‘proportionate to the gravity of the offense’ and that it may avail to expiate the guilt of the offender.