How to Use eliminate in a Sentence

eliminate

verb

• Doctors seek to eliminate the causes of the epidemic.
• She's trying to eliminate fatty foods from her diet.
• The body naturally eliminates waste products.
• The company plans to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs in the coming year.
• The bill that would eliminate the wait would alter a 2005 law.
  — Gary Fields, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• Remove the laces and soak in soapy water to eliminate dirt and stains.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• As the song goes on, the judges would slowly eliminate each pairing.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• Among the items eliminated were 34 percent of the total number of parts in the C4.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• The winds will be light all weekend, eliminating the chance of swirling sand.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• One easy way to corral clutter is to eliminate the pool of footwear that tends to collect by the door.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2023
• Get rid of weeds now The first step would be to eliminate as many weeds as possible.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2024
• And the surest way to eliminate a culture is to eliminate their past.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• The goal is to keep eliminating the foliage until the rhizome and roots die.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• At the end of the episode, one survivalist is eliminated.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 9 July 2023
• This eliminates the need to bend down or hunch over surfaces while cleaning.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• Test first, find out what’s valuable and eliminate dead weight.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The pellets used by a pellet smoker serve as both the fuel source and the source of the smoky flavor, eliminating one step.
  — John Sass, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Supreme Court’s rule, approved in April, was supposed to eliminate this problem.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Cavs went 51-31 last season before getting eliminated by New York in the first round of the playoffs.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• These are the best back shavers to eliminate back hair effortlessly and pain-free.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
• And thank God White Lotus came along and that got eliminated.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• The patch could eliminate some of those barriers to access, Barr said.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• The loser of the Raptors (9)-Bulls (10) game is eliminated.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The ready-to-use meat also eliminates the temptation to overcook the chicken.
  — Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Cummings was first to be eliminated from the show, and asked to apologize for losing.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• One resident said solar fields would not eliminate blight in the city.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
• From there, Jordan Heller was eliminated ahead of the Final Three.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• McGovern reached the match-play field of 64 but was eliminated 7 and 6 last Wednesday.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Convincing a shipper to transport the batteries also required a pricey workaround: They were removed from the phones and placed in barrels filled with sand, eliminating the fire danger.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• Pardons do not wipe convictions from a person’s record, but instead eliminate some, but not all, penalties associated with a conviction.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024