“We've become a nation of germophobes, battling to obliterate every bug in our environment.”

“It pulls out all the stops to try to wipe her slate clean, to obliterate the flops and the failures of recent years.”

“Only the right mix of white spirit was required to obliterate the top layer and reveal the hidden work of art beneath.”

“For Barthes, the catastrophe is unavoidable because time obliterates the punctum, or small space, registered in the photograph.”

“She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders, and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes.”

“The blood pressure cuff is inflated by hand to a level that obliterates the arterial pressure or pulse.”

“It came to a choice between demonstrating the bomb, or obliterating an actual city.”

“I would compare it with the whine of an aircraft engine, obliterating the sounds of nature.”

“Passmore worried that turning away from the Western tradition would lead to mushyheaded mysticism obliterating the genius of Western culture.”