wipe

Example Sentences

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Getting wiped out "hurt a lot", he told AFP, but he also learned a valuable lesson: he has come to think of the losses as "tuition fees".

From Barron's

"It means everything," he said, after he had wiped away his tears.

From Barron's

On a night when the men’s free skate turned into a splatfest, the reigning world champion wiped out twice, flubbed multiple jumps and tumbled all the way off the podium.

From The Wall Street Journal

As one beaming face follows the next, Ms Pelicot, for the first time, wipes away a tear.

From BBC

But floods have now swamped more than 100,000 hectares of land, wiping out key crops and forcing farmers in the country's northwest to flee with their livestock.

From Barron's