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
• Tap or click here to erase what Google knows about you.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
• 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 best coaches erase the line between coach and teacher.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 May 2021
• 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
• But for the first time since 2010, that pay differential has been erased.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
• And technology has added another dimension to this because everyone is reachable at any time, erasing the lines between on-the-clock and off-the-clock.
  — Michael Hansen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025