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
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
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
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
