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.
• To consign something to oblivion is not to be oblivious about it.
  — Christian Wiman, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Democrats, in Third Way’s view, could tweet themselves into oblivion.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• These Padres will not always homer you into oblivion, even though the 17 in the last five games is a club record for such a stretch.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• The house was bought and saved from oblivion by Erika Wirtz, a local entrepreneur.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• Shanghvi, and the man who so prized and preserved his oblivion became a subject of national curiosity.
  — Soma Das, Quartz India, 21 June 2019
• The received wisdom has long been that this march toward oblivion, once sufficiently advanced, cannot be reversed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2019
• Macfarlane calls this hunger for oblivion thanatos, after the Freudian term for death drive and the Greek god of nonviolent death.
  — Rachel Riederer, Outside Online, 25 June 2019
• Matarazzo and Keery are a fun comedy duo, and Hawke turns out to be great, sparking with the other actors and laughing toward oblivion.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 July 2019
• When this happened, she was stripped of her security clearance and sent off to a remote cubicle somewhere; she was basically condemned to oblivion.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2019
• In fact, spending too much, to soon on unproven business models only heightens the risk that a company's race for global domination can become a race to oblivion.
  — Leonard Sherman, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• Over days or weeks of refrigeration, the sauce ripens and matures as thorny aromas drift away, enzymes cut and trim sharp edges into smooth contours and soft nests of carbs convince bitter compounds to sink down into oblivion.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
• Interest and attendance waned quickly after the opening kickoff and the event lasted just four years before fading into oblivion in 2010.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2019
• The Supreme Court needs to take this case — and then nuke it into oblivion.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• For some the virus was just a hoax, a farce that would fade away into oblivion.
  — Rony Ortiz Andrade, Houston Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2020
• The sample won’t allow the egg to pass into the oblivion of hot rice.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Time to fire up a grill and char those ears into oblivion!
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 3 Sep. 2020
• 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 a fight filled with razor-sharp hits, the moment that will live forever is Yen pummeling a nameless henchman into oblivion, catching him in a headlock and slowing down to wind his fist up like Bugs Bunny to land the knockout punch.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
• The effect is a kaleidoscopic sea of sculptures stretching into oblivion—very selfie-friendly.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024