How to Use wipeout in a Sentence

wipeout

1 of 2 noun

• The surfer had a nasty wipeout.
• To be sure, the off-year election was not a wipeout for the GOP.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 5 Nov. 2019
• And then there's the bullpen, with four arms with wipeout-closer stuff.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Some of the crypto faithful see an upside to the wipeout of 2022.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Others peg the number at 27% That’s still a Biden wipeout.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Not even a serious wipeout can keep DJ Khaled off the golf course.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 16 June 2023
• The 2022 midterm elections were widely forecast to be a wipeout for Democrats.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Many of them fell victim to the Democratic wipeout in 2010.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2022
• The damage to Sale wasn’t done in the fourth, though, as his command of his wipeout slider worsened.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• Clevinger and Lamet are the Padres’ aces, hard-throwing right-handers with wipeout sliders.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
• Right before the big financial wipeout of 2008, Laurie and I bought a house up there.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2022
• Pro-choice states that are preparing for a Supreme Court-level wipeout will be tough to crack.
  — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
• The right-hander is best known for his wipeout slider but can reach 99 mph with his four-seam fastball.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2021
• Jimenez's fastball sits at 95 mph but rides up to 98 mph, and his wipeout slider is a tough task for any batter.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2020
• In the bottom half of the inning, Reyes clubbing a two-run triple — aided by a wipeout by Ward on the slippery right-field grass — for a 3-0 lead.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2022
• The 25-year-old has a wipeout slider and hopefully a great future.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Crochet has a fastball that has been clocked at 100 mph, a wipeout slider and a changeup.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• The wipeout didn’t end there, with shares falling nearly 7% on Wednesday.
  — Lauren Debter, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• With revenue that has more than tripled over the past two years and ever-smaller losses, the stock has done well, until the 2022 tech wipeout.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
• From the first legal filing to the last, this was an evidentiary wipeout.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
• The righthander mowed through the Nats, getting a fielder’s choice groundout to force the lead runner and then striking out the next two hitters on wipeout sliders to end the threat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The 25-year-old relied on his 95 mph fastball and a wipeout slider to attack hitters.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2021
• The wipeout could create shortages of food and supplies of products made from pigs, such as the blood-thinner heparin.
  — National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
• Analysts have likened the wipeout of the Sri Lankan economy to the financial chaos of the late 1990s in Southeast Asia’s major economies.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Scouts say Chamberlain has a low- to mid-90s fastball along with a wipeout curveball.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
• The 6-foot-7 reliever features a wipeout slider with his mid-90s fastball and provides depth for the Reds’ bullpen.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2021
• The 94% wipeout is the biggest one-day collapse ever among billionaires tracked by Bloomberg.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Alibaba shares have slumped about 70% since, a wipeout of more than half a trillion dollars of value.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• Come for the incredible athleticism — and stay for the wipeouts.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Such were the fears of a wipeout that there had been rumors that Sunak might have rushed into a Cabinet reshuffle Friday.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023

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wipe out

2 of 2 verb

• Tap or click for an easy way to wipe out dozens with a few clicks.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• This is about the evolution of the species, who goes forward and who gets wiped out.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• The decline wiped out much of its share-price gains this year and weighed on the index's IT sector.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the process inflation will wipe out savings and make wages buy less.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Yet many unions have not come out the other side stronger; they have simply been wiped out.
  — Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Side with the legal activists trying to wipe out these laws?
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2023
• By my count, that’s the first blocking flag to wipe out a McKinstry punt return.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 2 Oct. 2022
• Nanami Nakashima of Japan shot a final round 70, wiping out a two-shot deficit at the start of the day to win by one stroke.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Funny how the Chargers are suffering from the same plague that wiped out this year’s Padres.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• Remove the racks and wipe out the interior with a damp cloth.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Wolves, along with every Arizona high school, had their spring season wiped out.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Removing the bottom of the sea to collect sand wipes out marine life, too.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
• That flood took no lives but wiped out 21 homes and caused major damage to 25 others.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• The storm wiped out the first floor of his home, destroying furniture and leaving mud caked on the floor.
  — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Putin’s front men have been blunt about wiping out any remnants of Ukraine-ness from that country.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
• The drop wiped out over $100 billion of Apple’s market value.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
• That’s about $90 billion worth of market value wiped out.
  — Stephen Pastis, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Sean Caron’s fourth grade son, who has been diagnosed with Down syndrome, comes home wiped out, too.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
• There are people full of life in Gaza who will be wiped out if the bombardment and siege are enabled to continue.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
• The nearby port city of Derna was the worst affected following the collapse of two dams, which wiped out a quarter of the area.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The judge rejected Biden's claim that the 2003 Heroes Act gives him authority to wipe out these loans.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2022
• The price dip has wiped out billions of dollars from the company’s market value.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
• One bout of avian flu can wipe out production for an entire season.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2023
• In your version, Fire Lord Sozin says that his plan is to wipe out the airbenders before a new Avatar is revealed.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Some $180 billion has already been wiped out since a recent peak in July, leaving gains for the year hanging by a thread.
  — Byjulien Ponthus, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Using their products for a year would wipe out nearly 60 pounds of plastic from landfills.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 17 Aug. 2023
• The administration’s initial attempt to wipe out student debt was based on the on the Heroes Act.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 30 June 2023
• Millions of Americans thought their student debt might be wiped out.
  — Joe Pinsker, WSJ, 30 June 2023
• The news triggered a selloff in the company’s shares that wiped out almost a quarter of its market value.
  — Tarso Veloso, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• That caused a lot of outrage because of the statement Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, made about wiping out Huwara and so on.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024