How to Use elimination in a Sentence

elimination

noun

• The biggest change to the plan is the elimination of apartments on the third and fourth floors.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Red Sox danced off with a 6-2 win in the elimination AL wild card game.
  — Pete Caldera, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
• At the time, the Rangers trailed the Penguins three games to one and faced elimination then, as well.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• The blue team’s Brynn, Ryan and James were up for elimination.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 20 July 2023
• Last week saw Josh go home at the hands of Kyle in elimination.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2021
• The winner of the challenge is safe from elimination and at the end of the week one villain is sent home.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• He’s had to cover more area than the last couple of years because of the elimination of the shift.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• In the show, the top teams face off for a huge cash prize over the course of the season with elimination being the price for losing.
  — oregonlive, 11 May 2022
• The top four teams from the two five-team pools will advance to the single elimination round.
  — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• The elimination of a shift at that plant took effect last month.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
• The elimination of the Basic plan in the U.S. comes a month after the company made the same move in Canada.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• Among the changes was the elimination of a leg kick in favor of a more simplified toe-tap.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2022
• But first, Cara or Tori will need to make it through the final elimination.
  — Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
• Even with the Astros trailing and on the verge of elimination, the mood was light at the apartment party.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 2 Nov. 2021
• What needs to change if the round of 16 is to bring more than just chastening elimination?
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• Facing elimination, the Dodgers gave the ball to Walker Buehler on short rest for the second time in two weeks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• Three nights earlier, all hell broke loose in Houston to send the Dodgers to the brink of elimination.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Dodgers lost that game — an elimination game, no less — by, yep, two runs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• Now the Blues are on the brink of elimination, needing to win at home on Friday to keep their season alive.
  — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 1 May 2025
• On Monday, the Supreme Court greenlit the elimination of their work.
  — Miguel Cardona, Time, 21 July 2025
• The first elimination game of the 2022 NBA Finals is upon us.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• This season, contestant eliminations no longer take place at the end of the episode but rather occur at the top of the next episode.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
• Entering the game with the first-place Suns without James, the Lakers faced elimination with a loss and a Spurs win.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• Hamas has long sought a single, Islamist state in Palestine and the elimination of the state of Israel.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023
• The winning man will hand out the first rose and is immune from elimination, which will be determined by a group vote at the end of the week.
  — EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• The winners of those games will face each other two days later and the losers will face off in an elimination game.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 13 June 2022
• The elimination of a third candidate, Sinan Ogan, leaves the 5.7 percent of voters who chose him, many of them from the right, up for grabs.
  — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• But Kyle remains one plank ahead of Josh throughout the elimination, and Josh just can’t pick up enough speed to at least tie with him.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
• In time, through the process of elimination, John Reigh Hoff was identified as the prime suspect.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Considered the quarterfinals, this round is single elimination and takes place in NBA markets from Dec. 9-10.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025