Sentence examples for practically wiped out from inspiring English sources

But with Fannie's and Freddie's shareholders practically wiped out, "the principle has been upheld," he added.

Within 45 minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured".

The seaside towns along the famous Jersey Shore were devastated; the popular Seaside Heights resort was practically wiped out, the amusement park on its pier torn to pieces.

SMYRNA — A whole battalion of Ottoman troops was practically wiped out in an appalling accident at Ephesus station, on the Aidan Railway, yesterday [Oct. 21].

From the Shanghai area are glimpses showing the bombardment of the Chapei district by the Japanese and the resulting fires, which practically wiped out the section.

The hostile Iroquois had practically wiped out the friendly Huron and Erie tribes among whom the Jesuits had made their best converts.

The plurality opinion, if agreed to by a majority of the Court, would practically wipe out the Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled self-incrimination.

Now, research involving invasive and native salamanders in the Salinas Valley of California shows how devastating this can be: the hybrids have voracious appetites and can practically wipe out other species.

A rout in the rupee--down 13% since we last measured fortunes a year ago--practically wiped out the Indian stock market's 14% rise in the same period.

With a little more composure in front of goal Liverpool could practically have wiped out the goal-difference deficit, and what a statement of intent that would have been.

(My own mother, at 85, has wiped out practically every memory of anything unpleasant in our family history. But she still has never forgiven me for taking my 19-year-old brother to Woodstock, while she spent the weekend waiting for a report of his grisly death).