in oblivion
Example Sentences
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They are a collective droop wrapped in a trajectory trapped in a monolith, a lolling smudge of beards and fur hats, seat belts dangling in oblivion as so many were at takeoff.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022
The hell depicted in “Hadestown” is a Rust Belt city in oblivion, where proletarian recruits trade perpetual work in the mines and pits for Hades’s paternalism and the security of eternal life.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021
In several poems, Amichai gives expression to a fear that the Jews and their God might go down together, united in oblivion.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
Today’s fear is that Ayotzinapa will be buried in oblivion together with hundreds of Latin-American struggles.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2015
Far gone in weariness, in oblivion, the noble and enduring man slept on; but Athena in the night went down the land of the Phaiakians, entering their city.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
