How to Use rub out in a Sentence

rub out

verb

• Any slight excess can be wet sanded down and then rubbed out.
  — Paul Wright, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
• The poison in question has spattered from the tips of African weapons for centuries, rubbing out wild beasts and halting the hearts of warriors.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
• Exotic has served a year of his more than 20-year sentence for attempting to hire a hitman to rub out Baskin.
  — Ben Feuerherd, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2021
• His vision started blacking in from all sides like it was being rubbed out with an eraser.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2018
• Use a dry erase marker instead of a Sharpie when designing to easily rub out any mistakes or errant marks.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
• Garces rubbed out another try by Fiji without video review because a forward pass was obvious.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
• Coping Mechanism: Guidance from his partner ( Brendan Gleeson ), who soaks up the art and architecture of the medieval town before getting the order to rub out his young protégé.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• His mission, ostensibly, is to retrieve the sword and rub out Akemi, who’s just turned 21 and unknowingly inherited the Kawa crime family empire.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• His government and its allies have been changing place names to Hindu from Muslim, rubbing out historic Muslim figures from textbooks and celebrating lynch mobs who murdered Muslims.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• Well, not really all that impressive since Putin effectively wiped out (or rubbed out) any serious opposition.
  — Author: Cal Thomas | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
• An extensive torture campaign has been documented by human rights workers, intended to rub out any sense of disloyalty from the military.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
• For at-home maintenance, Away (which doesn’t cover superficial markings under warranty), recommends using a Magic Eraser sponge to rub out scuffs and scratches, while Rimowa suggests using isopropyl alcohol as a cleaning and restoring agent.
  — Laura Neilson, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024