How to Use efface in a Sentence

efface

verb

• This is a little sad and self-effacing but great to see the show use her.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2020
• And while Trump may indeed pass, that self-etching will not soon be effaced.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Dec. 2017
• But that’s the most this self-effacing painter will ever do to convey his mistrust.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2016
• That shouldn’t efface all sense of decency and self-respect, though.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• The fact that their lives also contained sources of fulfillment doesn’t efface this fact.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Coach Dye is all humble pie, just glad to be here, honored, self-effacing.
  — Tom Corvin, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• In it, the Nuggets’ emerging superstar takes a self-effacing jab at … himself.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• Yet, what a vivacious charmer the self-effacing Norman is.
  — Colin Covert, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
• The wind that exposed the ancient buildings now promises to efface them altogether in a short time.
  — Ernest Hilbert, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• So far, Trump's conduct of his office has been hardly more self-effacing.
  — Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• Like the two self-effacing Shafers, Fernandez credits the vineyard's unique site.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• Over time, the whole of Normandy embraced this self-effacing grunt who’s impossible not to like.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
• The risk, of course, is that her vision might also efface the crimes for which the women served time and, in turn, the unseen victim or victims who correspond to each image.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• There’s also self-effacing, even goofy stage banter from Cole.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• Andrea’s perspective is so fresh and funny, her voice at once self-effacing and arch, that the move to third person is both jarring and a bit of a letdown.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• The 44-year-old food writer is prone to bouts of self-effacing humor, always delivered with a wry, near-mischievous smile.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 7 Dec. 2019
• As with the man himself, however, the show’s self-effacing vibe was deceiving.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2018
• Simultaneously confrontational and self-effacing, the first video from the Netherlands sets the tone for most of the rest.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2017
• Ryota’s widowed mother, in After the Storm, is kinder, more self-effacing, but prone to attacks of ruefulness.
  — Terrence Rafferty, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
• The emperors who followed Nero swept it away in a frenzy, attempting to efface him and his works from Roman memory.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• But the former president was relaxed and self-effacing.
  — Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
• But while the money rolls in, a small but persistent core of outrage has forced the formerly self-promoting Nix and company to turn shy and self-effacing.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 8 June 2017
• Rowe was friendly, funny, smart, sincere and self-effacing.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Don was so humble, so self-effacing and congenial, even his competitors loved him.
  — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• Much of it has to do with his personality, which is equal parts humility with an self-effacing charm.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity.com, 30 June 2017
• My friends and I who hold connection to Islam try to make the blow of our current political climate into self-effacing jokes.
  — Youth Radio, Teen Vogue, 28 June 2017
• The Masnavi addresses those who leave the world, try to know and be with God, efface their selves and devote themselves to spiritual contemplation.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2017
• The 150-minute ceremony combined the serious with the self-effacing.
  — Dan Kane and Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 15 July 2017
• The government even wanted criticism of its mishandling of covid-19 effaced from Twitter.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• My hope that movements could efface the democracy-weakening impact of mass incarceration was last kindled by the millions who poured into the streets in 2020 to protest George Floyd’s murder by police.
  — Victor Ray, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022

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