How to Use expunge in a Sentence

expunge

verb

• The charges against King were dropped and the arrest expunged from his record.
  — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• Writing the book was a way to expunge that shame in some regard.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• For some, expunging the taint of the Saudis from the U.S. alliance system may be worth the price.
  — Mike Watson, National Review, 30 July 2019
• The city was ordered to pay him back wages and expunge the suspension.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
• The pardon was found by a judge to be valid, but Arpaio fought on to try to get his offense expunged from court records.
  — Peter Blumberg, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• Those who receive a pardon in the Buckeye State still have to ask a court to expunge or seal their record.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• The Steelers hope to expunge the memory of that 48-37 loss to the Browns in January’s wild-card round.
  — cleveland, 26 Oct. 2021
• The arrest has also since been expunged from Paige’s record.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2019
• If Miller does not commit any more crimes for the next year, the case will be expunged from his record, the Globe reported.
  — Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 20 July 2023
• Last August, the man accused of stalking Koehler asked a judge to expunge the stalking case.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2022
• McCabe asked the judge to compel the DOJ to provide him with back pay, his full pension, and to expunge his record.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
• Brandon Fox, Hendon’s lawyer, said the case will be expunged.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2024
• Of these requests, 84% were expunged and removed from the BrokerCheck site.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2020
• The Steelers will also want to expunge the memory of their 48-37 loss at Heinz Field in the playoff game.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Much stronger than runners and stalkers, clickers are tough to kill and even tougher to expunge from your dreams.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
• From there, her record was expunged and police returned her $500.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• The defendants want the court to expunge the notice, the third item a judge is slated to take up at Wednesday’s court hearing.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Court costs were expunged for time served since his arrest and he will be given credit for that time.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2019
• Thanks to Proposition 207, if a court grants a request to expunge a charge: The case file and law-enforcement records is sealed.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
• When the charges against him were later dismissed, Lamar petitioned a judge to expunge his DNA from city records.
  — New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Aroma spent years trying to expunge films of her abuse from the Internet.
  — Charlie Campbell / Tokyo, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Sun reviewed documents showing the pipe bomb charge was ordered to be expunged in March 2021.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• He was charged with obstructing a highway — a charge since expunged.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Those convictions, however, were expunged and did not show up on the FBI’s background check, the records say.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 15 July 2019
• After the suit was filed, administrators agreed to expunge his grade for the class.
  — NBC News, 15 June 2021
• But the Islamist militant threat has not been expunged.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• If there is no objection, agencies have 60 days to expunge any records.
  — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2023
• The offending satoshi, which was on the site for about 30 minutes, has been taken down but the image can never be expunged.
  — Mo Ghoneim, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• Apart from buying votes, the extensions are meant to buy time to prepare the legal work to expunge student loans.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• The next day King got an email from the district prosecutor’s office saying his cases were being expunged.
  — Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024