How to Use purification in a Sentence
purification
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In one sense, then, her book is an act of purification.
— Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020 -
The end goal, as Prigge put it, is to reimagine air purification.
— Nina Huang, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2021 -
The purification equipment accounts for a third of the square footage and about 40 percent of the cost of the exhibit.
— Matt Campbell, kansascity, 1 May 2018 -
This is the longest phase of the roughly two-hour purification process.
— Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2022 -
As an act of purification, some may even gather the ash left by the fire and cover their bodies with it.
— Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2024 -
As an act of purification, some may even gather the ash left by the fire and cover their bodies with it.
— Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024 -
Six years ago, personal air purification wasn’t a thing, but Dyson saw a gap in the market and went all in.
— Chris Haslam, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022 -
At Eli Lilly, the purification problem fell to George Walden, a 27-year-old chemist.
— James P. Brody, The Conversation, 21 July 2021 -
The main home connects to the pool pavilion, with a zero-edge pool that features a state-of-the-art purification system and deck.
— Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2022 -
When it's charged, just swipe across the cap to activate the Kiyo's UVC purification system.
— Gregg Ellman, Star Tribune, 9 June 2021 -
The videos with the claim about the air purification system have since been removed from the church's social media accounts.
— NBC News, 23 June 2020 -
For thousands of years, that act of purification, we are told, has helped keep illness and disease, even plagues at bay.
— Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2020 -
In the water purification world, there’s nothing else quite like it.
— Adam Markovitz, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024 -
Here again, some form of water purification device is a nice add-on.
— The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 Dec. 2020 -
It is slated to pump to the Miramar purification plant much of the sewage sent to the city’s Point Loma sewer treatment plant.
— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2023 -
As John knelt, eyes shut, the priest uttered an oath and slapped him, signaling his purification.
— Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019 -
This virus has halted the routine of the day to day and impelled us, in a rare reflex from our usual hustling, to seek purification.
— Paul Theroux, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020 -
Then, and only then, does the priest come forward so that purification can begin.
— Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2022 -
Make sure to change the water every season, though, and pack at least two methods of purification.
— Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 27 June 2018 -
But for reasons that aren’t clear, the global smudging craze has fixated on white sage as the plant to use for purification.
— Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022 -
At the end of the process, scientists kill and break open the cells, using a purification process that takes about a week and a half to strain out a ring of DNA, called a plasmid, that codes for the spike protein.
— Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2020 -
Fasting is a form of purification in a religious context, but it can be also seen as a refusal to be part of the system.
— New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022 -
Knowing where to start in terms of finding the best solution for air purification can be daunting.
— Earl Correll, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2020 -
The island has a 5-foot galley sink with two faucets and an Echo ionization and purification system.
— Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2021 -
The white Calla Lilies signifies the purification of the soul and the purple flowers emphasize mournings.
— Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021 -
Each batch consists of a refined broad-spectrum extract that has been through a purification process.
— Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022 -
Air purification systems were installed in some of the buildings in Fair Park in 2021, and those ActivePure systems remain in use.
— Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022 -
Most notably, the pipeline is used to transport tar sands oil, which is thick, heavy and one of the dirtiest forms of oil, in need of intense purification before use.
— Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2021 -
In some cases, purifying regular quartz can be used as an alternative, but the world doesn’t have the capacity to do that purification in high enough quantities to make up for the loss of Spruce Pine.
— Clare Duffy, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024 -
This is a call for creating routines that support mental and physical well-being and for organization and purification.
— Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
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