How to Use obliterate in a Sentence

obliterate

verb

• Now home runs are on a pace to obliterate the record set in 2017.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• The first team to obliterate the spell will win the series.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• Curry has a chance to obliterate the mark when all is said and done.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2021
• The late-night host then obliterated a donut by shoving one of his hands through the hole.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
• The fog, which rolled in around sunset, obliterated the top third of the new building.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2018
• Morante’s novels have the drive of a general ready to obliterate the field.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
• That negated the need for so many bombs to obliterate a target.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• The song is a reminder that he’s still got it, and obliterates the notion that rap is only a young man’s game.
  — Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
• On the south side of town tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 15 homes were obliterated and 14 more were damaged.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• Kill the galanthi, close the portal, obliterate hope and achieve world peace, or so goes the Free Life thinking.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
• The cask is there to frame that character, not obliterate it.
  — Claire Dodd, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Dozens of homes, obliterated in seconds, with the pull of a trigger.
  — Leanne Abraham, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• His car wasn't as lucky, with the bumper hanging off and the back windshield obliterated.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 30 Nov. 2019
• But Henry is well known for having tried to obliterate all traces of his ex-wives.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• The Bears came out on fire just a week removed from being obliterated by a Sun Belt squad.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
• But Medvedev obliterated Djokovic’s dream, via a straight-set blowout.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Sep. 2023
• Tehran can’t sit back and watch Israel obliterate Hamas.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• Hamas now seems all-in on its covenant to obliterate Israel, Hoffman said.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• But the reality is that in their last five games, the Heat have lost to the Nets and Knicks and been obliterated in the fourth quarter by the Thunder.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Its wetlands were obliterated by sea wall along much of its 4,493 feet of shore.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 May 2018
• Having two of the best passers in modern NBA history obliterates the premise.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• Even the rust and rot can’t obliterate the charm of this no-frills, old-school field, with its precise lines of elegant sycamores shading many of the bleachers.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
• To put that into perspective, a dose of 10 Gy is enough to obliterate a human.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• This event won’t reach the heights of the punishing heat dome that obliterated records in the region in June 2021 and contributed to hundreds of deaths.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• The outfield wall in Dodger Stadium was obliterated in the process.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• By not jumping on this train, Team USA is going to be obliterated by it.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
• Speas, who was away from baseball, has obliterated Double-A hitters for the last month.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• How the tiny critter doesn’t obliterate its own fist is due, in part, to a web of natural shock absorbers beneath.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• The Knicks have obliterated traditional pick-and-roll coverages for the most part.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
• Rather than obliterating Israel, Gaza became the battlefield, and many innocent Gazans have paid a terrifying price for Hamas' folly.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2025