How to Use oblivion in a Sentence

oblivion

noun

• The names of the people who lived here long ago have faded into oblivion.
• After being awake for three days straight, he longed for the oblivion of sleep.
• The little village was bulldozed into oblivion to make way for the airport.
• The technology is destined for oblivion.
• She drank herself into oblivion.
• His theories have faded into scientific oblivion.
• Her work was rescued from oblivion when it was rediscovered in the early 1900s.
• The sample won’t allow the egg to pass into the oblivion of hot rice.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Yet even in a road trip to oblivion, there’s the hint of new beginnings.
  — Jon Bailes, Wired, 11 June 2021
• No house or piece of land or chest of letters, just a few weeks of oblivion.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• This team was sleep walking towards the edge of oblivion and didn’t seem to care.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Nov. 2021
• Lloyd Reuss is also the man who saved the Riviera from oblivion.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• From oblivion to an early contender for the sixth man of the year is a long journey.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• In the end, about three-quarters of all species were swept into oblivion.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• That, too, is a result of our decision to consign the lessons of the past to oblivion.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Not even ketchup was going to bring them back from bland oblivion.
  — Sharrona Pearl, Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
• The comfort of a childhood bed and washed-into-oblivion soft sheets call to me.
  — Maggie Lange, SELF, 21 Nov. 2022
• Those found wanting were thrown into the fire of oblivion.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• Gonzaga The Bulldogs were run off the court and into oblivion by the Huskies.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• In an interview, Shapiro said changing the lyrics will save the state song from oblivion.
  — oregonlive, 7 June 2021
• What goes up must come down, so Styles then falls into oblivion.
  — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 13 July 2022
• Nine years when anybody who tried to alert the public would get sued into oblivion.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2021
• The other one is, what in this world is worth saving in a universe that tends toward oblivion?
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• The Spartans soon vanished from the NFL’s radar, slipping into the deep waters of oblivion.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2022
• This oblivion is one of Delaney-Smith’s greatest fears.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
• The boomers blasted it all into oblivion while Gen X screwed around on the internet.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
• Fraser with his soulful gaze and enormous grin who makes the movie — and likely saved it from oblivion.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
• The moon has slipped out of orbit and now menaces the Earth, and a handful of scrappy astronauts may be all that stands in the way of the planet's oblivion.
  — Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 3 Feb. 2022
• And the Green Bay Packers still have a chance to rescue a season that seemed headed toward oblivion.
  — Steve Megargee, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
• Only one zone and two strikes are being lost, a third, Warden of Nothing, has been saved from oblivion.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024