Sentence examples for try to obliterate from inspiring English sources

Conventional theatres - by the dimming of house lights - try to obliterate themselves during a performance.

In the future the Mitchell camp may wonder whether it was wise to launch a scorched earth campaign to try to obliterate everyone who questioned his account of the incident in Downing Street.

One night, after reading The Robber Bride, I was awake until dawn, so deeply upsetting was her portrayal of Charis, who changed her name from Karen to try to obliterate the horrors of an abusive childhood.

As Ms. LaGamma writes in a slender catalog full of tantalizing ideas, "Osugbo members try to obliterate dualities and, in doing so, to attain the ultimate level of enlightened consciousness".

Frankly, I wouldn't blame her if she did: if I were her, I'd probably spend my every waking hour in a state of advanced stupefaction, in an attempt to try to obliterate the thought that the Mail Online is permanently camped out on my doorstep and people are tracking my every move on social media.

Try to obliterate any preconceived notions of who you're supposed to be sexually attracted to.

That constantly bears down and tries to obliterate any void.

To bring back to life an existence they were trying to obliterate.

The authorities in Massachusetts were so outraged that having failed to arrest Williams, they tried to obliterate his new settlement.

Aung San is revered by most Burmese, but, because of his famous offspring, the junta has tried to obliterate his memory.

"These graves had tried to obliterate evidence of a massacre of 8,000 men and boys," Ms. Terry said.