Example Sentences

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Wiped clean, the Market was to be replaced with a massive urban development of high-rises towering over high-end retail shops and thousands of parking spaces.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

Wiped out by the crash of ’29, a woman marries a Georgia millionaire and lives life to the fullest.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2020

It was like: ‘You were here in New Orleans, your life was like this and that’s it. That life is gone for ever. Wiped away.’

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2019

Wiped clean, the digitally dead have no knowledge or awareness of where they came from, no renewed contact with those they left behind.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2019

She pointed her finger at me and said, “She wiped out every sprig of my generations—she hates me so. Wiped out each one but JimmyTrotter.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia