EFFACE in a Sentence
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35 example sentences for EFFACE, such as:
1. I will efface that blot on my father's character.
2. He handled the coin so many times to efface its date.
3. Even to efface herself from the country means were required.
4. Time and weather had long ago effaced the inscription on the monument.
5. The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.
2. He handled the coin so many times to efface its date.
3. Even to efface herself from the country means were required.
4. Time and weather had long ago effaced the inscription on the monument.
5. The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.
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Meanings and Examples of EFFACE
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efface
v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
v. remove completely from recognition or memory
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
Context Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
2 I will efface that blot on my father's character.
3 Even to efface herself from the country means were required.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
4 The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
5 , nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning.
6 Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind other pre-occupations.
7 I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
8 They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
9 In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was even more effaced and silent than in winter.
10 The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
11 She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words.
12 Moreover she had not seen Trenor since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and in his continued absence the trace of Rosedale's words was soon effaced by other impressions.
13 Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar impressions effaced.
14 Almost every night they were brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and others were substituted.
15 Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
Example Sentence:
1 He handled the coin so many times to efface its date.
2 The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.
3 Time and weather had long ago effaced the inscription on the monument.