How to Use obliterate in a Sentence

obliterate

verb
  • Now home runs are on a pace to obliterate the record set in 2017.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
  • The first team to obliterate the spell will win the series.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • Curry has a chance to obliterate the mark when all is said and done.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The clouds and rain obliterated the moonlight and sealed in the effect of the weather.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The late-night host then obliterated a donut by shoving one of his hands through the hole.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The fog, which rolled in around sunset, obliterated the top third of the new building.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2018
  • Will Death of Self live up to their name and end up obliterated?
    — Nicole Roberts, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The matchup: Dallas was obliterated by the Broncos on both sides of the ball.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Morante’s novels have the drive of a general ready to obliterate the field.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • That negated the need for so many bombs to obliterate a target.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The song is a reminder that he’s still got it, and obliterates the notion that rap is only a young man’s game.
    — Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • On the south side of town tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 15 homes were obliterated and 14 more were damaged.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • What was the point of all that work, of the white man’s bisnis, if it could be obliterated by a distant wraith?
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Kill the galanthi, close the portal, obliterate hope and achieve world peace, or so goes the Free Life thinking.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • The cask is there to frame that character, not obliterate it.
    — Claire Dodd, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Dozens of homes, obliterated in seconds, with the pull of a trigger.
    — Leanne Abraham, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His car wasn't as lucky, with the bumper hanging off and the back windshield obliterated.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 30 Nov. 2019
  • And what about the Mason-Dixon line, wouldn’t that be obliterated?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • And what about the Mason-Dixon line, wouldn’t that be obliterated?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • After a two-hour rain delay, the game was called, obliterating it from the record books.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But Henry is well known for having tried to obliterate all traces of his ex-wives.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • The Bears came out on fire just a week removed from being obliterated by a Sun Belt squad.
    — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But Medvedev obliterated Djokovic’s dream, via a straight-set blowout.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Towns were obliterated The storm took out 40% of the city of Murphysboro, 97 miles southeast of St. Louis.
    — John O’Connor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The hit on Gronk is the only way Church could have done his job without just obliterating Gronks knee.
    — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Tehran can’t sit back and watch Israel obliterate Hamas.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Hamas now seems all-in on its covenant to obliterate Israel, Hoffman said.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But the reality is that in their last five games, the Heat have lost to the Nets and Knicks and been obliterated in the fourth quarter by the Thunder.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Eid Naser obliterated the field in the first 50 meters of the race, trying to break the stagger between her and her competitors as quickly as possible.
    — Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • And before that could happen, Earth will likely be obliterated as our sun expands into a red giant and swallows the inner planets of the solar system, Vidale said.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Feb. 2025

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