Sentence examples for obliterated- from inspiring English sources

"I kept looking at the clock and thinking: 'I can do it, I can do it.'" In the end he had plenty to spare, with Steve Ovett's 8min 13.51sec set in 1978 obliterated by Farah's 8min 07.85sec.

It's an especially efficient form of vampirism, one with its own official beer and a mascot that invariably ends up looking like some sort of obliterated genital.

Traditional pubs were once almost obliterated on Tyneside by the vogue for high-turnover drinking houses with flashing lights, fizzy lager and booming music.

But the manner in which Johnson in particular obliterated England's lower order, while England failed to manage the same, was crucial, as was the quality of the Australian catching against that of England.

Or was it there to be skipped over, obliterated perhaps by marker pen?

I am typing this with obliterated fingers.

In the event, the obliterated targets appear to have been a farming hamlet, and a ragtag caravan of Bedouin sheep smugglers.

Indeed, money prolongs the war: rumours abound of arms sales by Russians, not least to rebels, and both sides profit from smuggling and kidnapping.Although the obliterated centre of Grozny bustles with traders in daylight, it is deserted at night.

THE rubble of Grozny, Chechnya's obliterated capital, is decorated with giant posters of Ramzan Kadyrov being made a "Hero of Russia" by Vladimir Putin.

In some obliterated towns, shops are open and stocked and have electricity.

Very little, in fact, of what Gorky said about his past was true, although the past that he spent his life concealing is the stuff of real drama.The painter was born into poverty as Vosdanig Adoian sometime around 1903 in the now-obliterated Armenian village of Khorkom, near Van in Ottoman Turkey.