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
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 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
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
He must consign to oblivion the body and soul, the life, comfort and existence.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
