Sentence examples for earth wiping from inspiring English sources

A virulent new strain of flu that "exploded like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth", wiping out 99% of humanity; characters holed up in tower blocks while the world collapses around them; "unspeakable years" in which the unlucky survivors walk blasted roads in search of vestiges of civilisation; crazed prophets leading murderous cults and "ferals" leaping out from behind bushes.

Of course, a giant meteor could smash into Earth, wiping out all life before we have the chance to EMP ourselves into oblivion, so this could all be moot.

We even watch a meteor crash into the earth, wiping out all the life we've just seen flourishing.

Did they think things might go a bit Melancholia and that the sun would crash into the Earth, wiping out all human life?

In happier news, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking thinks we're probably looking at another 1,000 years, max, before some kind of global cataclysm on Earth wipes us out as a species.

At the end she celebrated as if she had won the title, raising herself to the heavens, stooping to touch the earth, and wiping her face with her hands as though removing the agony she had been through.

What corporation is guilty for polluting the earth and wiping out life in the distant future because of technology overreach?

All except one died on the same day as the incestuous, inward-turning Buendías were being expunged from the face of the earth -- "wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men".

The President of the United States could not confirm that the world was about to end, for even NASA and other space agencies could not predict with a hundred percent certainty that the asteroid was going to collide with the earth and wipe away all that man had built on the surface.

So I remember learning in school that there was a mass extinction event: a giant asteroid hit earth and wiped out all the dinosaurs at once.

He lifted it out of the earth and wiped it down, before quickly realizing that the stone's inscription was in Hebrew," she said.