consign to oblivion

Example Sentences

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Not their luggage, you understand, but of all the bits of their backstory that they’d like to consign to oblivion.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017

We will say no more about it," replied Miss Maitland; "it is an unpleasant episode, which we shall be only too glad to consign to oblivion.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

Well, well! let us consign to oblivion all the pranks you must have played to have been metamorphosed from a milksop to a madcap.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

It is easy to suppose what it must have cost our author to consign to oblivion the fruit of so much labor and so many vigils.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

To consign to oblivion the memory of these gallant suffering few would be culpable injustice.

From A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade by James, William Dobein