How to Use efface in a Sentence

efface

verb

• This is a little sad and self-effacing but great to see the show use her.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2020
• That shouldn’t efface all sense of decency and self-respect, though.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• Trish’s words efface Cannon’s, which slink off the page.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
• But that’s the most this self-effacing painter will ever do to convey his mistrust.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2016
• The fact that their lives also contained sources of fulfillment doesn’t efface this fact.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Coach Dye is all humble pie, just glad to be here, honored, self-effacing.
  — Tom Corvin, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• There’s also self-effacing, even goofy stage banter from Cole.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• The self gets effaced and re-created in so many cross hatches, small threads, and hypnotic patterns.
  — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• Don was so humble, so self-effacing and congenial, even his competitors loved him.
  — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• The wind that exposed the ancient buildings now promises to efface them altogether in a short time.
  — Ernest Hilbert, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• As with the man himself, however, the show’s self-effacing vibe was deceiving.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2018
• In it, the Nuggets’ emerging superstar takes a self-effacing jab at … himself.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• Boosters of the seed vault sustain the logic of their effort in part by effacing the embarrassment of the flood.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• Small plaques for cremations are easily and gracefully effaced by rose bushes and grass.
  — 1843, 21 May 2020
• Much of it has to do with his personality, which is equal parts humility with an self-effacing charm.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity.com, 30 June 2017
• Ferry, by nature shy and self-effacing, reinvented himself as a fop with issues.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Over time, the whole of Normandy embraced this self-effacing grunt who’s impossible not to like.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
• Lee’s joie de vivre infects her co-workers and bosses, who likewise begin to think that loneliness is something to be felt rather than effaced.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The contours of their personalities, which up until this point have been carefully limned, are effaced.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2017
• Maybe Ryan will realize that a truly superb social player doesn’t just tell self-effacing jokes.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Like the two self-effacing Shafers, Fernandez credits the vineyard's unique site.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• Agnes spends the series sheathed in a drab, severe outfit that effaces her as a person, couture from the House of Orwell.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Andrea’s perspective is so fresh and funny, her voice at once self-effacing and arch, that the move to third person is both jarring and a bit of a letdown.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• The 44-year-old food writer is prone to bouts of self-effacing humor, always delivered with a wry, near-mischievous smile.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 7 Dec. 2019
• The Eaton and Palisades fires effaced entire communities, destroyed thousands of homes and left more than two dozen dead.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
• The risk, of course, is that her vision might also efface the crimes for which the women served time and, in turn, the unseen victim or victims who correspond to each image.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• Blair grounds the film with her understated, self-effacing performance, while Cage is employed like a special effect.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 19 Jan. 2018
• Ronan is clearly a serious actress of a high order and perhaps not prone, by nature, to be self-effacing, to emphasize the comic.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
• The emperors who followed Nero swept it away in a frenzy, attempting to efface him and his works from Roman memory.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• Simultaneously confrontational and self-effacing, the first video from the Netherlands sets the tone for most of the rest.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2017