Example Sentences

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He was effacing the garage, he had eaten up the corridor and all the cars.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid

The consciousness that he was in reality still a young man spread over his mind afresh, and this time he felt that it was effacing all earlier impressions.

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold

In the empire at large the development took its natural tranquil course, unaffected by the manner in which the old Roman nobility was effacing itself; and this development did not tend towards atheism.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

It was not true that time was effacing the memory of the great sorrow she had suffered.

From A Tale of a Lonely Parish by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)