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How to use erase in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Erase means to remove (markings or information). Example: “I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.”

Examples of erase by meaning

verbTo remove (markings or information).

  • I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.

verbTo obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

  • I'm going to erase this tape.

verbTo obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.

  • I'm going to erase those files.

verbTo remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play.

  • Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
  • Henderson has the speed and anticipation to erase receivers all over the field, and his athleticism is absurd; according to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Henderson bench presses 380 pounds and squats 545.2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

verbTo be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).

  • The chalkboard erased easily.
  • The files will erase quickly.

verbTo disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.

  • I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
  • As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones, page 209
  • Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies, page 40

nounThe operation of deleting data.

  • This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, page 603

More sentences with erase

  • "On Earth, features like these may well have been largely erased."2025 September 3, Julia Jacobo, “What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out”, in ABC News. From the entry sluggishly
  • It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.2024 April 27, Maya Yang, “Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry vacate
  • “Yet here you appear, and as easily as milking a cow, you erase him from this world.”2024 July 30, Michael Alexander Rodriguez, The Last Days of Adrian Relyeh, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry boogen
  • The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness.2013, Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry both-handedness
  • Then erase any pencil lines with a good, soft eraser, rubbing gently, in only one direction.2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook, page 79. From the entry crumb
  • The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry passage
  • Danny brushed away the eraser dust, but he could see no trace of what he had erased.2011, John Ames, Adventures in Nowhere, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry eraser dust
  • For a moment those words almost erased the dislocation of my tumble.2009, Alan Robbins, Following the Trail of Blood. From the entry soothy
  • In such a case, Commonwealth law demands that the AI's personality be completely erased."2001 January 15, Walter Jon Williams, All Great Neptune's Ocean (Andromeda), season 1, episode 10. From the entry artificial intelligence
  • Now I got one "Corrupted"-file which I erased and the next song had a timeskip.2001 January 1, Aake Kinnunen, “Nomad 2 MG memory glitch?”, in creative.products.nomad (Usenet). From the entry timeskip
  • A mouth soaping does not erase the dirty word from mind.2000, Raven Walker, The Zen Manager, page 100. From the entry mouth soaping
  • In the EPROM and ROM erase, a fieldless array is implemented to get the full scaling benefit.1999, Paulo Cappelletti, Flash memories. From the entry fieldless
  • With this ethnicide and culturacide, they entirely erased every Turkish and Islamic trace in Serbia.1996, Aleksandar Aco Ravlić, editor, Međunarodni znanstveni skup “Jugoistočna Europa 1918.-1995.”, volume 2, Croatian Heritage Foundation…. From the entry culturacide
  • The following edit will usually erase the tail of such an edit.1993, Steven E. Browne, Videotape Editing: A Postproduction Primer, page 280. From the entry over-record
  • Reparative therapy is not a cure in the sense of erasing all homosexual feelings.1991, Joseph Nicolosi, “Reparative therapy of male homosexuality: A new clinical approach”, in Jason Aronson. From the entry reparative therapy
  • They erased the immediate and the distant for him, to attain teller attachment, omnicomprehensive company.1974, José Lezama Lima, Paradiso, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 323. From the entry omnicomprehensive
  • The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 7”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC…. From the entry erasure
  • Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future.”2025 March 28, Michael Williams, “Trump targets ‘improper ideology’ at the Smithsonian in latest effort to reshape the arts and history”…. From the entry jasmine
  • Awkward encounters are inevitable when you erase Mark Zuckerberg from your life, but I just can't bring myself to go back.2017, Stefanie Preissner, Why Can't Everything Just Stay the Same?, →ISBN. From the entry jomo
  • I'm thinking he was either erased or he's something we don't know about." Nyk rubbed at his jaw.2015 November 3, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal: The League: Nemesis Rising, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry ghost
  • To erase the Soviet dimension of the Russian identity would be a reactionary and futile attempt to demodernize Russia.2013, Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry demodernize
  • So complete was the extermination that until recently the Tangut were a historical blur virtually erased from history by the Mongols.2007 October 10, Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111. From the entry Tangut
  • If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.2004, Anna Maxted, Being Committed, page 358. From the entry zero
  • It suggested to me that the Mogadishu line—that invisible mark across which US troops would never again step—had been erased.2003 July 5, Fergal Keane, “Good news: the United States has decided to cross the 'Mogadishu line'”, in The Independent, archived from the…. From the entry Mogadishu line
  • A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319. From the entry pellety
  • By lightly brushing over the distorted area (with the erase function), I made the vehicle's original shape gradually reappear.1995, Byte - Volume 20, page 174. From the entry unbrush
  • Thir isnae an embarrassment in the world that cannae be erased by a bit ay blether and a few bevvies.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry blether
  • Legend erases the line between conscious and unconscious.1994, William Corbett, Philip Guston’s Late Work: A Memoir, Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland Books, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry dreamware
  • The erased portion of the edit is called an overrecord.1993, Steven E. Browne, Videotape Editing: A Postproduction Primer, page 280. From the entry over-record

Meaning of erase

  1. verb To remove (markings or information).
  2. verb To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
  3. verb To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.

Full definition of erase

Questions about erase in a sentence

How do you use erase in a sentence?
Erase is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.”
What is a short sentence with erase?
“The chalkboard erased easily.”
What does erase mean?
Erase means to remove (markings or information).

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