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
It sounded as if its waters were still foaming with rage at the deed that so long ago had been enacted near at hand, and which death itself could not consign to oblivion.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
Often in his wretchedness would he groan aloud, and wish for unconsciousness to come to his aid and consign to oblivion his accusing memory.
From Probable Sons by Le Feuvre, Amy
The barbarous methods to which it owed its very existence they were willing to consign to oblivion.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
It is true some injudicious Bavarian modifications were made; but time will soon consign to oblivion these delusions of Teutonic intellect.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
