ERASE in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for ERASE, such as:

1. Leblanc erased the three words.
2. Please erase her name from the list.
3. She tried to erase the memory of that evening.
4. All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind.
5. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out.

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 Meanings and Examples of ERASE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
erase
 v.  rub letters or characters written, engraved, or painted
Classic Sentence:
1  While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  But late in the evening, when they were alone, Anna, seeing that she had regained complete possession of him, wanted to erase the painful impression of the glance he had given her for her letter.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 32
3  We would accept our Life Mandate, and we would work for our brothers, gladly and willingly, and we would erase our sin against them, which they did not know, but we knew.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
4  Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
5  It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased from the list.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
7  Leblanc erased the three words.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
8  He erased it once more and then took himself out of temptation by driving the other boys together and joining them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
10  On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  Once order had been restored, every trace of those events would have been erased and everything would take its previous course once more.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
12  Thirty years ago, this quarter was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Example Sentence:
1  Taylor wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
2  Some memory, to be able to erase; Just as some people,to be able to replace.
3  Tiger Woods is determined to erase the memory of a disappointing Cup debut two years ago.
4  They are determined to erase the bad memories of last year's defeats.
5  Please erase her name from the list.
6  They are desperate to erase the memory of that last defeat in Cardiff.
7  She tried to erase the memory of that evening.
8  The only way to erase old file is to overwrite the file with special patterns.
9  All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind.
10  These effects are not erased by using female-identified participant observation, as well as male-identified ratings scales.
11  Yesterday I had the skin frozen and now the dimple is larger, the size of a pencil eraser.
12  If you draw or write in pencil you can always rub out your mistakes with an eraser.