How to Use elimination in a Sentence

elimination

noun
  • Tell me about coming up with eliminations for this season.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Eight separate battles will take place, which means almost half of the cast will be seeing the elimination floor.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This is another reason why this elimination might feel harder.
    The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Also Nany says in her confessional this is the third elimination she's won this season...
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The queens then participate in a themed runway show, where one is declared the winner of that week, while two others are announced to be up for elimination.
    al, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Grant’s heartbreaking elimination in Week 6 also sealed the deal for him as a contestant worth having a second shot at love.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The other acts, unfortunately, would face elimination once more.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Round - Each conference will pick 16 players to compete in a 3-part elimination challenge.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Each conference will select 20 players to compete in a three-part elimination challenge that will leave one player left at the end to earn three points for his conference.
    Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • New this year, each conference will select 20 players to compete in a three-part elimination challenge that will leave one player left at the end to earn three points for his conference.
    cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Peete and Edwards saw their contracts expire after Dallas’ postseason elimination at the hands of the 49ers.
    Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The blue team’s Brynn, Ryan and James were up for elimination.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • The winner of the challenge is safe from elimination and at the end of the week one villain is sent home.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • He’s had to cover more area than the last couple of years because of the elimination of the shift.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The elimination of the Basic plan in the U.S. comes a month after the company made the same move in Canada.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
  • Dodgers lost that game — an elimination game, no less — by, yep, two runs.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Hamas has long sought a single, Islamist state in Palestine and the elimination of the state of Israel.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The elimination of a third candidate, Sinan Ogan, leaves the 5.7 percent of voters who chose him, many of them from the right, up for grabs.
    Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
  • And that means faster odor elimination so spicy, garlicky foods don’t linger.
    Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The Tigers knocked out Tennessee in an elimination game, and beat Wake Forest in back-to-back games to advance to the final.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • Others warn that the rise of text-to-video systems like Sora will hasten the elimination of jobs.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the likes of wrestling and boxing have faced elimination.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Nicholls State will square off with Tulane at 1 p.m. in an elimination game.
    Staff and News Service Reports, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
  • To reach this point, the Wolfpack has had to win seven games in a row, all of them elimination games, in which a loss would have ended their season.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The concept of the fictional show was much more violent — where death was the common way of elimination from the high-stakes game.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The contestants with the fewest votes face elimination.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The announcement that Grant would be the next lead came right after his elimination.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Adjustments start right in the main lobby with the elimination of the large rotating door used in San Diego.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • With the merging of tribes and the 'Heroes' yet to go to another elimination, there's no doubt plenty in store to keep us hooked over the next couple of weeks.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Within two years the board is forced to step in and direct mergers or elimination of colleges.
    David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023

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