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• They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.From the entry zap
• Hermione Granger just turned 36, in case your childhood hasn’t already been Avada Kedavra’d into oblivion.2015 October 2, “The Bullseye”, in Henry Goldblatt, editor, Entertainment Weekly, number 1383, New York, N.Y.: Entertainment Weekly Inc.…. From the entry Avada Kedavra
• This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.2013 August 23, Mark Cocker, “Wings of Desire”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 28. From the entry see
• His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion.2007 December 30, Lee Siegel, “The Blush of the New”, in New York Times. From the entry ironize
• Used and discarded Fls–French letters–floated in the slime, little opaque vessels carrying human seed into oblivion.2005, Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay. From the entry fl
• If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion.2005 July 18, Alan Duncan, “The Tory Taliban must be rooted out”, in The Guardian. From the entry Taliban
• The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33. From the entry Tasmanian emu
• Wolfe saw himself in this bardlike role, vanquishing death and oblivion with timeless words.1968, Andrew Turnbull, Thomas Wolfe. From the entry bardlike
• Doubtless others could not weather the economic barriers, and soon subcombed to oblivion.1925, John Daniel Bright, The Reform Press of the Forties, page 8. From the entry subcomb
• It's literally the same dude and with just a couple of inches he is mogging himself to oblivion.2021 April 7, @WindReign, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 21 Aug 2026. From the entry heightpill
• He is standing again, pacing around the apartment lobby, scared, like some wizard is going to Avada Kedavra him into oblivion.2019 August 28, Emily Roach, Rebecca Rahme, “Adrian”, in The Uprising, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry Avada Kedavra
• “The sweet oblivion of the magic flower.”2012, Linda Lafferty, “The Reunion”, in The Bloodletter’s Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia, Las Vegas, Nev.: Amazon Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry poppy oil
• Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion.2011, Relic Entertainment, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, scene: Exterminatus declared on Typhon Primaris. From the entry soul
• The name and image of the Saxon pagan goddess Hretha on Caden’s own shield had been beaten nearly into oblivion.2011, Linda Windsor, Thief (The Brides of Alba), Colorado Springs, Colo.: David C Cook, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Hretha
• So I've been thinking about how The Final Shape guns are going to earn a slot in my loadout without power-creeping the game to oblivion.2024 May 28, Austin Wood, “Destiny 2's lead gun guy answers our biggest questions about The Final Shape: new weapon mods, the next raid…. From the entry power-creep
• At the same time, if you, a manufacturer, continue building fleets of nonhybrid gas guzzlers, you are condemning yourself, your employees and shareholders to oblivion.2008 May 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Truth or Consequences”, in New York Times. From the entry nonhybrid
• Wilbury Jr. (Tom Petty), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan) and Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) — which made two albums and then journeyed into oblivion.2007 November 5, Kathryn Shattuck, “Whats on Tonight”, in New York Times. From the entry superband
• The purity in his work does go hand in hand with selflessness, but this as oblivion of the ego rather than self-effacement.1996, P. Abelsen, “Irony and Purity: Mishima: I. A Puzzling Event at Ichigaya Garrison 1”, in Modern Asian Studies. From the entry samurainess
• Antiquitisation means the consignment of the forces of hinderances and obstructions, in the due fulfilment of the individual in freedom, to the oblivion of history.1970, Ram Chandra Jain, Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata, page xxxii. From the entry antiquitisation
• In the space of a night, an international staff of tens of thousands disappeared into oblivion, or became amnesiac, or simply dropped brain-dead where they were standing.26 August 2019, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 161–162. From the entry neutralisation
• On the contrary, the use of nuclear or other terror weapons would be certain to invite overwhelming retaliation, delivering North Korea’s decision makers to a fiery oblivion.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times. From the entry on the contrary
• Following the suicide of his apparently unreassurable wife, Bunny takes to the road with 9-year-old Bunny Jr., and that road is a one-way expressway to oblivion.2009 October 4, Geoff Pevere, “The Death of Bunny Munro presents debauched anti-hero”, in Toronto Star. From the entry unreassurable
• Farrell wasn't as good as the liberal-Marxoid critics of the '30s claimed, but he is good enough not to deserve the oblivion that has fallen upon him.1997, Robert Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, page 31. From the entry Marxoid
• As in Maiden Castle, in which we glimpsed Dud and Wizzie in nondreaming oblivion, there is in Weymouth Sands an emphasis on sleep as the other of Being.1990, Denis Lane, In the spirit of Powys: new essays. From the entry nondreaming
• In course of time many a such temple are lost to oblivion leaving only the images now kept in the newly built temples or in the ransackle houses.1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal. From the entry ransackle
• Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.2020, anonymous, quoted in Jacob Conley, "Efficacy, Nihilism, and Toxic Masculinity Online: Digital Misogyny in the Incel Subculture"…. From the entry cope
• Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27. From the entry skullish
• Those funny pipes were used for opium-smoking — just a puff for each shining black pill, and then oblivion to all earthly cares — dreams and dreams of beautiful worlds.1904, The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 4, page 369. From the entry black pill

Meaning of oblivion

1. noun The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
2. noun The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.
3. noun A form of purgatory.

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How do you use oblivion in a sentence?

Oblivion is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He regularly drank himself into oblivion.”

What is a short sentence with oblivion?

“He regularly drank himself into oblivion.”

What does oblivion mean?

Oblivion means the state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.