How to Use erase in a Sentence

erase

verb
  • You can erase the tape and use it again.
  • I erased the chalk marks from the blackboard.
  • The recording can be erased and the tape used again.
  • She erased the wrong answer from her paper and filled in the correct one.
  • Several important files were accidentally erased.
  • The Patriots erased deficits of 1-0 in the fourth and 4-2 in the sixth.
    Skip Vaughn, al, 5 May 2023
  • Blistered in the tandoor, the fluffy naan helps erase the last of any sauce.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • The result is that the U.S. dollar has erased most of its gains on the year.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The drop has erased all of the billionaire’s wealth gains this year.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 21 Nov. 2024
  • By early June, the site had erased all traces of the novel.
    James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 18 July 2025
  • That erased her place at second place with the first out of the inning.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • No number of awards can erase the love of a good burger.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
  • But to end the pregnancy of the child is not going to erase the wounds or those scars.
    cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • But the storm isn’t seen as big enough to erase San Diego’s growing rain deficit.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But New York erased the deficit with a big third quarter, outscoring the Lynx 20-10.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That’s all well and good, but how does that erase what happened back in ’78?
    Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2025
  • One of the themes of the film itself is that Vietnamese voices have been erased from the telling of this.
    Allen Salkin, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • And that was kind of going to be the metaphor of eclipse, [that] their chance in this lifetime had been erased.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • For one, the school erased a $19 million budget deficit.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The strategy paid off in the bottom of the third, when the Wildcats scored three runs to erase a 3-0 deficit.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2022
  • Izzo’s only goal of the night, off a feed from Kennedy Ziegler, helped the Bulls erase a 10-goal deficit in the first half.
    Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022
  • One dud doesn’t erase the good performances Young has put on tape over the past month.
    Joseph Person, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The washout has the index on track to erase its big rally from a day before.
    Damian J. Troise, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Only a record 66-yard field goal could erase the idea that maybe the play shouldn’t have happened at all.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The Cavs were eager to get back on the court and erase the memories from Monday night.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s how to see (and erase) everything Google tracks.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Levis will want to erase all copies of this game from existence.
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The need for change, and the causes of it, are not erased by a single, thrilling performance.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • The move to erase the sometimes ugly truth about this country’s history?
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But what is striking is how much Piastri has managed to erase the gap over a single lap season-over-season.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025

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