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How to use efface in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
It taxed the resources of the municipality to the utmost and left scars on the city that took years to efface.
By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail.
Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection.
Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film.
Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself.
The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry.
The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God.
The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners.
He should heartily submit to the Lord's will, worship the Creator and efface his self-conceit.
This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate.
The pardon granted by the court in the cases cited by the delegation should efface not only the sentence but also the declaration of guilt.
Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism.
When enlarged, these tonsils will efface the vallecula, the space just anterior to the epiglottis.
If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him.
It is an effect that appears unsettlingly intrusive, as if someone had sought to deliberately efface the work.
To take refuge in the absurd promise of mercy from God disrupts any totalizing schemas that efface what cannot be incorporated.
The rib cage is pushed forward, arms are behind the torso, and there is a general tendency to be too flat-that is, true efface and croise are missing.
It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
Examples from Classical Literature
The better to efface the impress of their tyrannical past, I had to dip them into water.
Use the palette knife to unite and smooth the color, efface with the knife the traces of the brush.
So, having this behind-time flash of after-wit, I made haste to efface the question I had asked.
It was a climax of discourtesy whose impression I must at all costs efface.
For field memoranda I advise the use of a stylographic pen, as pencil is apt to rub and efface in time by the motions of the body.
Nothing can ever cure me, no dream of my mind can ever efface the dream of my heart.
The constant use of that paddle in the water, for fifteen days, did not efface the color.
Manassas gave a stamp of prestige to Southern valor and soldiership, which not even a deluge of subsequent disasters could efface.
He might chance to strike where no words would efface the welt.
The FLEUR-DE-LIS is small, rosy in color, and looks as if efforts had been made to efface it by the application of poultices?
You must efface either the two sirens or the legend, without which I forbid the exhibition of the sign.
Why should he efface himself, if it meant Sidney's unhappiness?
But here is a confession which a hundred crosses can not efface.
This was alone wanting to efface every trace of the old Republican spirit.
Enough to efface it in the eyes of one who had never sinned?
Will it be possible to efface the evil impress left on that mind and body?
He forgot his resolution to efface himself, and whipped his horse forward.
The strength of the child is to efface himself in every possible way.
It was one of those Titanic struggles which Time cannot efface from the memory.
Lady Arabella tried to efface herself behind the now open door.
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