How to Use erase in a Sentence

erase

verb

• You can erase the tape and use it again.
• I erased the chalk marks from the blackboard.
• The recording can be erased and the tape used again.
• She erased the wrong answer from her paper and filled in the correct one.
• Several important files were accidentally erased.
• The drop has erased all of the billionaire’s wealth gains this year.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 21 Nov. 2024
• Vacations can also help erase work stress and prevent burnout, to a point.
  — Chris Woolston, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022
• Many want to reduce or erase the separation of church and state, say those who study the movement.
  — John Blake, CNN, 24 July 2022
• The government has sought to erase nearly all discussion of the leak.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Nothing will erase the volatility of the unknown, but a healthy dose of resilience reduces the sting.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• Through his lens, the sparse sets of headlights on the road below would melt into a river of light: the road erased, a wildness restored.
  — Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
• But if anything, Rizer says part of the idea of Lucktoberfest is to help erase those lines.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 July 2022
• And what a loss that would be, erasing the splashes of yellow and orange every fall and silencing the quaking of the leaves.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
• That’s part of what angered so many with this policy – rótulos already felt at risk, without a campaign to erase them.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2022
• India fired a dart to third baseman Brandon Drury for the out to erase the potential leadoff triple.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 13 July 2022
• The curators stress the collaborative aspect of the relationship, but the artist was at pains to erase it.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Into this landscape comes a new movie, one that will hopefully erase the bad memories of earlier endeavors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• But others note that including transgender and nonbinary people in the conversation doesn't erase or exclude women.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 13 July 2022
• Many transgender people want to erase grammatical gender terms altogether.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• But the new polling does offer some caution about the idea that Dobbs will transform the election landscape this fall or erase the intensity gap that already existed between voters in each party.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
• The Patriots erased deficits of 1-0 in the fourth and 4-2 in the sixth.
  — Skip Vaughn, al, 5 May 2023
• The result is that the U.S. dollar has erased most of its gains on the year.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• No number of awards can erase the love of a good burger.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
• But New York erased the deficit with a big third quarter, outscoring the Lynx 20-10.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• And that was kind of going to be the metaphor of eclipse, [that] their chance in this lifetime had been erased.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• The washout has the index on track to erase its big rally from a day before.
  — Damian J. Troise, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
• The Cavs were eager to get back on the court and erase the memories from Monday night.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
• Here’s how to see (and erase) everything Google tracks.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Levis will want to erase all copies of this game from existence.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2022
• The need for change, and the causes of it, are not erased by a single, thrilling performance.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024