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How to use the word obliterate in a Sentence?

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell	added by Normando 2 months ago
Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. – Joan Didion	added by JokerGem 10 months ago
It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression. – Jonathan Friedman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have seen a lack of stability over 30 years and four governors, said Nicholas Alahverdian. We have seen a lack of care. And now — in an election year — we have seen a complete and utter lack of bureaucratic mastery to obliterate the red tape and provide tangible, enduring solutions to children and adolescents in state care. – Nicholas Alahverdian	added by anonymous 5 years ago
This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Our memory consists of bits and pieces which have made their imprint on our dreams and our life. All those fragments have enlightened or darkened the sky and the horizon of our existence. They are all instances that we don't want to forget or splinters that we can't obliterate. The mind collects them and by recalling, interpreting or idealizing them, the actuality very often becomes corroded. We experience then a "mutilated memory".-- – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to. – Cervantes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

– George Orwell

added by Normando
2 months ago

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

– Joan Didion

added by JokerGem
10 months ago

It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.

– Jonathan Friedman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have seen a lack of stability over 30 years and four governors, said Nicholas Alahverdian. We have seen a lack of care. And now — in an election year — we have seen a complete and utter lack of bureaucratic mastery to obliterate the red tape and provide tangible, enduring solutions to children and adolescents in state care.

– Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Our memory consists of bits and pieces which have made their imprint on our dreams and our life. All those fragments have enlightened or darkened the sky and the horizon of our existence. They are all instances that we don't want to forget or splinters that we can't obliterate. The mind collects them and by recalling, interpreting or idealizing them, the actuality very often becomes corroded. We experience then a "mutilated memory".--

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.

– Cervantes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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