efface

Example Sentences

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"You may have the power to bring down the government. But you cannot efface reality," he said.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

Frankly, to efface all cartographic memorials to racism in Alexandria would require changing the name of the city itself.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

Even his too-muchness, though, had its source in a rich and vivid queer identity he alternately skirted, trumpeted and refuted but could never successfully efface.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

Most essentially, “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” not unlike Fleischmann’s first book “Syzygy, Beauty,” effaces lines of genre as a strategy to efface, or disrupt, lines of self and gender.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019

Without regrets she honored the obligation she felt to him and was happy to efface herself.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson