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Six example sentences with expurgate, each labelled with its topic.
Publishers in the 1880s expurgated the novel so heavily that three chapters lost every reference to the sister's first marriage.
Literature
Radio stations expurgate two lines from the chorus, and the silence where the words were is now instantly recognizable.
Music
Court archivists expurgated the ambassador's letters before binding them, leaving neat gaps where his opinions of the queen had been.
History
Studio censors expurgated two scenes from the 1934 release, and the missing footage turned up only in a Prague archive.
Movies
The committee expurgated the report before publication, so pages describing the minister's dinners appear as gray bars.
Politics
Museum trustees expurgated the mural in 1952, painting over two figures that had drawn letters of complaint.
Art
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