Example Sentences

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Open at Winged Foot by six strokes, is obliterating the ball.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2020

I’m seeing it in my dreams too, only it isn’t a barn that the plane is obliterating ... it’s my laptop.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020

The #MeToo reckoning is obliterating much of the silence.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2018

But it is clear that he feels strongly that the man who would identify them is obliterating a distinction to which his experience testifies unequivocally.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

For man is now overcoming space faster than he is obliterating national peculiarities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various