Example Sentences

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President George Bain Everitt gave assurance, however, that earnings during the current three months will efface this entire deficit.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Time will efface your sorrow,” I said, in a voice meant to be sympathetic.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

We don't expect any more of them, but if slavery is destroyed, one generation of education and liberty will efface these stains.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The sight of the empty shoe in the corner will efface the most relevant logic.

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob

Ah! that speech of his has sunk deep in my memory; no time will efface it.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana