Examples of eraser in a Sentence
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One chip is about the size of a pencil eraser and contains 16 tiny electrodes, each thinner than a human hair.
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Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
Her nipples would be like erasers on her chest, her shoulders pulled back like a gymnast’s.
—Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
But then came Friday the 13th and the extraordinary owl in the eraser.
—Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
Microplastics are fragments of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters long, the diameter of a standard pencil eraser.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
Like most Away bags, this suitcase comes with a leather luggage tag and a scuff eraser for buffing out exterior nicks.
—Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
The gene editing tool acts like a pencil and an eraser.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
And there’s even that little red eraser ball cursor from back in the day for nostalgics.
—Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
Dry, bready, and studded with tannic walnuts, these would make better chalkboard erasers than snacks.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2024
Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
Her nipples would be like erasers on her chest, her shoulders pulled back like a gymnast’s.
—Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
But then came Friday the 13th and the extraordinary owl in the eraser.
—Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
Microplastics are fragments of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters long, the diameter of a standard pencil eraser.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
Like most Away bags, this suitcase comes with a leather luggage tag and a scuff eraser for buffing out exterior nicks.
—Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
The gene editing tool acts like a pencil and an eraser.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
And there’s even that little red eraser ball cursor from back in the day for nostalgics.
—Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
Dry, bready, and studded with tannic walnuts, these would make better chalkboard erasers than snacks.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Eraser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eraser. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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eraser
noun
eras·er
i-ˈrā-sər 
: one that erases
especially
: a piece of rubber or a felt pad used to erase marks (as from a pencil or chalk)
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