Example sentences for: wiped

How can you use “wiped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pervaiz Musharraf (yes, that's his name, Mr. Bush) has "wiped out the last vestiges of democracy in Pakistan."

  • Crops were wiped out; the rice terraces were devastated, and starvation threatened.

  • The next twenty years of reconstruction and growth were wiped out overnight, in May 1945, when American bombers leveled nearly half the city.

  • The grand square, wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by assassin’s bullets in the praça in 1908, and one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was staged in this place.

  • We destroyed bridges, crippled power plants, accidentally bombed hospitals, and wiped out Serbia's economy.


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