efface

Example Sentences

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"You may have the power to bring down the government. But you cannot efface reality," he said.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

The novel derives its memorable title from Laila’s admonition that the narrator efface her idiosyncrasies, the better to morph into a version of her mother.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020

The wind that exposed the ancient buildings now promises to efface them altogether in a short time.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2019

Most essentially, “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” not unlike Fleischmann’s first book “Syzygy, Beauty,” effaces lines of genre as a strategy to efface, or disrupt, lines of self and gender.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019

Without regrets she honored the obligation she felt to him and was happy to efface herself.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson