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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Even the rust and rot can’t obliterate the charm of this no-frills, old-school field, with its precise lines of elegant sycamores shading many of the bleachers.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
• To put that into perspective, a dose of 10 Gy is enough to obliterate a human.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• This event won’t reach the heights of the punishing heat dome that obliterated records in the region in June 2021 and contributed to hundreds of deaths.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• The outfield wall in Dodger Stadium was obliterated in the process.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• By not jumping on this train, Team USA is going to be obliterated by it.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
• Speas, who was away from baseball, has obliterated Double-A hitters for the last month.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• How the tiny critter doesn’t obliterate its own fist is due, in part, to a web of natural shock absorbers beneath.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has a chance to obliterate records during the last three regular-season games.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 20 Dec. 2020
• First, the Padres obliterated the script for a sleepy seaside place more head-and-heart connected to sunsets than sports for decades.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Unless, for a hero of the counterculture like Gordon, obliterating the brand is, in fact, the brand.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• In 2019, major league hitters obliterated the record for home runs in a season.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
• This quick circuit is designed to obliterate your quads.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
• And the team that could make that pick, the Miami Dolphins, opened the season by getting obliterated by the Ravens on Sunday.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2019
• Far below, white clouds cast dark shadows on the Aegean’s great, obliterating plain.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• As a mother watching Palestinian children starved and obliterated, my instinct is to feel utterly despondent, to feel powerless to make change.
  — Stefanie Fox, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024