Sentence examples for nearly obliterated from inspiring English sources

The plaques become crowded, the lines accumulate and the maps are nearly obliterated.

Her party had not just beaten their opponents, but nearly obliterated them.

Less recommended is watching the tape of Giants catcher Buster Posey being nearly obliterated at home plate by Florida's Scott Cousins.

The blinding success the Bee Gees experienced with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977 nearly obliterated the sound that defined their first era of success.

But Tyson Foods, the world's biggest meat company, said its third-quarter profit was nearly obliterated because of skyrocketing grain costs.

As if to underscore the significance of this revival, Tye shows how it has animated Jewish communities that had been persecuted, terrorized and nearly obliterated in the past.

It breathlessly binds together all that comes before while nearly obliterating it, permanently coloring the reader's memory in one final rush.

The sulfurous smoke and ash rolling from the caldera drift down the side of the mountain, nearly obliterating the surrounding landscape.

Berger was so devoted to his source material that he was willing to nearly obliterate his own voice in service of it.

Some of the bolder birds sat on her arms, on her shoulders, even on her hat, and the strenuous beating of wings all around her, nearly obliterating her small figure, caused her to cry out with delight.

Immediately afterward he photographed the ways that patterns of shadow could nearly obliterate figures or that light passing through gratings could turn passers-by into backgrounds for abstract designs.