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  • When he was set upon, he was slapped and clawed and obliterated by a girl who was utterly consumed with rage.†   (source)
  • This time they obliterated the Buddha's face, which had watched over the valley since the seventh century.†   (source)
  • Entire blocks had been obliterated to rubble.†   (source)
  • Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated.†   (source)
  • Within a few years, he was racing, setting mile records and obliterating his opponents by the length of a homestretch.†   (source)
  • In the three decades since construction ended, much of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there.†   (source)
  • Even those who claim their ancestors obliterated it take great pleasure in describing its beauty.†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar were obliterated?†   (source)
  • A surge of white steam billowed thickly from the cauldron instead, obliterating everything in front of Harry, so that he couldn't see Wormtail or Cedric or anything but vapor hanging in the air.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth to speak and a raw plume of dry warmth shot down his throat, seeming to obliterate any air or moisture in its path.†   (source)
  • I thought about the warm skin and soft hair and hands of someone living, someone who was far cleverer and funnier than I would ever be and who still couldn't see a better future than to obliterate himself.†   (source)
  • I don't know if they would have betrayed me, but most likely they would have, in an attempt to obliterate their memory of how they had once been friends with a Jew.†   (source)
  • The pond, but also the house, the farm garden, the well, the foundations of the barn, all were obliterated.†   (source)
  • The arrow hit the absolute center, obliterating the black dot.†   (source)
  • ARE WE PREPARED TO OBLITERATE THE WHOLE COUNTRY?†   (source)
  • We'd survived the EMP attack, the obliteration of the coasts, the plague that wasted everyone we knew and loved.†   (source)
  • It was there, in the small, stuffy trailer on the edge of the baking-hot blacktop of the Bakersfield school district parking lot, that I found an older girl who was disappointing only in her failure to speak the language of the mostly obliterated Cahuilla people.†   (source)
  • Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little, some solace, something surviving in the ruins.†   (source)
  • A search revealed that the socks they had arrived in were being washed, and that in the obliterating thrill of passion, Aunt Hermione had omitted to pack more than one extra pair.†   (source)
  • A black void rushed up behind them, as happened when a focused looking glass was destroyed, its path to a specific destination obliterated.†   (source)
  • Maybe you even get a few buttons from their torn, obliterated uniforms.†   (source)
  • But he had accepted her, had obliterated her former disgrace.†   (source)
  • He had been greedily inhaling Marijke's scent, but now this was obliterated by rich aromas of cooking.†   (source)
  • Though it would make them miserable, Eragon hoped it would rain so their tracks would be obliterated.†   (source)
  • Patting along the top of the cabinet, she soon found it: the heart-patterned diary, some of the hearts coated with pink nail polish to obliterate the names of various boys she had immortalized as crushes of the moment.†   (source)
  • This is about the survival of our race, which was almost entirely obliterated, and about keeping you alive.†   (source)
  • Bressia's space force was obliterated within the first twenty hours of fighting.†   (source)
  • The U.S. bombs blasted the big radar installations and obliterated the control tower in Kandahar.†   (source)
  • Five people were killed in or near the fair, including a worker obliterated while helping prepare the night's fireworks and a visitor who stepped from one grip-car into the path of another.†   (source)
  • If she tried, Mae could get to at least a few of these events, but just when she was arranging some sort of itinerary, she saw something that obliterated all else: the Funky Arse Whole Circus would be on campus, on the lawn next to the Iron Age, at seven.†   (source)
  • Their plan is to obliterate what Illea has, take over, make a bunch of promises, and leave everyone in the same place they are now.†   (source)
  • The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy, wiping out small businesses, obliterating regional differences, and spreading identical stores throughout the country like a self-replicating code.†   (source)
  • Clary could see his face now—it was dead-white and papery, latticed with a black network of horrible scars that almost obliterated his features.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, without warning, water roared down from above, directly in front of him, and obliterated all the sights and sounds of his children.†   (source)
  • I glance down at the grass beneath my feet, almost expecting to see a tiny patch of it seared and obliterated, wiped clean.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Erudite and Dauntless will still be at a standstill then, waiting for one group to obliterate the other.†   (source)
  • For she had seen him without grief for a long time: a shadow that had been obliterated.†   (source)
  • Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.†   (source)
  • Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum.†   (source)
  • An entire wall was gouged open, obliterated clear down to the studs.†   (source)
  • The idea, he explained, was to let the navy obliterate the place—it was less than two square miles of coral sand—then wade in and mop up the leftovers.†   (source)
  • My toothache had quieted to solemn pain, Momma had obliterated the evil white man, and we were going on a trip to Texarkana, just the two of us.†   (source)
  • He seethed in anger at the pounding of their footsteps, and the voices rising around him like the tide of some obliterating sea.†   (source)
  • A ringing noise in her ears obliterated Ada Belle's narrative.†   (source)
  • And because …. she didn't really know why, other than that the dizzy way the kiss made her feel obliterated all practical thought.†   (source)
  • The contact point in the circuit connecting the two worlds is being shaken violently, threatening to obliterate the clear outlines of her existence.†   (source)
  • To accept it would obliterate his image of the killer-or, rather, killers.†   (source)
  • All other faces were obliterated for him by the blinding glare of Yves' absence.†   (source)
  • The doctors remember the clinical signs, because no one who has seen the effects of a Biosafety Level 4 hot agent on a human being can ever forget them, but the effects pile up, one after the other, until they obliterate the person beneath them.†   (source)
  • The fire had obliterated the heart of the city, its very center of business and culture, then had gone on to wipe out the residences of its wealthiest and most powerful citizens.†   (source)
  • All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.†   (source)
  • The hit obliterates the beat of the crowd's rhythmic clapping.†   (source)
  • Puller glanced down at the dead woman's hands and saw that they were nearly obliterated.†   (source)
  • Both solid operators who didn't get obliterated.†   (source)
  • Mullah Omar would continue to think he could talk his way out of war until American cruise missiles began obliterating his personal residences.†   (source)
  • The Navy admiral directing the bombardment even promised he would "obliterate" the island.†   (source)
  • It was as if someone had taken a paintbrush to the landscape and obliterated some of the scenery.†   (source)
  • The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything.†   (source)
  • I asked, only to hear the words mockingly obliterated.†   (source)
  • When he had exhausted all possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God.†   (source)
  • Inside my head I had an army of brushes with black ink, obliterating the thoughts and memories that kept popping up.†   (source)
  • More than anything she wanted to see his face, just once, and then obliterate it forever, shatter it into tiny pieces, grind the pieces into nothing.†   (source)
  • A concentration camp is the complete obliteration of privacy.†   (source)
  • That right at this very moment there are riders in interview contracts that dictate whole swaths of forbidden conversational topics that, though they don't name her specifically, are all about obliterating her from the record.†   (source)
  • "In a stunning victory for individual civil liberties," I began onscreen, and then a bright blue BREAKING NEWS banner obliterated my face.†   (source)
  • What's this?" asked the famous Cardinal when he recognized his own smudged and nearly obliterated signature.†   (source)
  • Ravel felt that Gershwin would obliterate the very thing that made him special by learning conventional approaches to rhythm and harmony.†   (source)
  • Please undress; and return to the couch, obliterating the points as before.†   (source)
  • He had sat paralysed as, over the course of a few minutes, she obliterated the professional facade of sophisticated respectability that he was always so careful to maintain.†   (source)
  • To obliterate these thoughts, she slid her hands between her legs and felt herself, worked at herself, refusing to concede to the initial stubborn numbness until at last her loins twitched and swam and she was lost.†   (source)
  • His most remarkable feature besides his paleness, a paleness that obliterates any possible expression, is his hair.†   (source)
  • A USAir 737 went down in Hopewell Township, on its way to Pittsburgh, and was just…obliterated.†   (source)
  • A cascade of water and struggling shrimps poured down the rock, obliterating the footprint, but I knew, with a sickly feeling, that the harm had been done.†   (source)
  • The ship had crashed down and obliterated half the dock beneath it, causing the Kestrel's guardian to wail and churn the waters.†   (source)
  • I steal a look at Kartik, who chops at the remains of the tree, obliterating it.†   (source)
  • I want to tell them that what they have here is a man named John Kwang, born in Seoul before the last world war, a boy during the Korean one, his family not mercifully sundered or refugeed but obliterated, the coordinates of his home village twice removed from the maps.†   (source)
  • You chose a man named Bourne because the circumstances of his disappearance had been obliterated, eliminated from every existing record-or so you believed.†   (source)
  • Why don't the Austrians concentrate their artillery fire on this post and obliterate it?†   (source)
  • Out front squatted a waist-high gargoyle, so eroded by rain and salt that his features were all but obliterated.†   (source)
  • General Wright's army shatters Lee's right flank, spins around to obliterate A. P. Hill's Third Corps, then makes a U-turn and marches on Petersburg—all within two hours.†   (source)
  • The first, Hetta Moppett, part-time dancer and licensed club companion, was beaten to death on May 28, at approximately two A.M. The majority of blows were delivered to her face and head in such a manner as to obliterate her features.†   (source)
  • There was a blaze in the air obliterating his sight, hot breath of death, huge noise.†   (source)
  • Later Ralph was to notice how Grover loved motion in general and speed in particular obliterating speeds; and how, just when the rest of the world packed its tools away, at twilight, he seemed to come most alive.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality: she saw the family in the evening gambling at the dinner table, the young people massaging their elders' backs.†   (source)
  • The first obliterated the SAC base at Homestead, and incidentally sank and returned to the sea a considerable area of Florida's tip.†   (source)
  • History was not reassuring: even the most peaceable of contacts between races at very different cultural levels had often resulted in the obliteration of the more backward society.†   (source)
  • It'll be out—" but the date was obliterated by a great crash, maniacal childish laughter, high-pitched squeals.†   (source)
  • The intervening years between Cracow and Brooklyn had forced her—almost as a means of retaining sanity—to try to obliterate that time from recollection.†   (source)
  • I would argue lamely for peace in Vietnam while my students clamored for the H-bombing of Hanoi and the subsequent obliteration of Moscow and Peking.†   (source)
  • The wish that came to me—consuming the anxiety about letting myself down—was the wish to win the possessor of that body, the body which, because I wished to win its possessor, I saw as perfect, and wanted continuously, during the act itself, to see, holding myself in ways that enabled me to do so, avoiding crushing the body with my own, avoiding that obliteration of sight and touch.†   (source)
  • External realities of a frustrating nature she obliterated by refusing to believe in them, and when one resisted her disbelief she raged at it.†   (source)
  • I should have pushed them away, I should have obliterated them.†   (source)
  • If he but touch its base against a contact within his glove, the Universal Fire will leap forward with a blinding brilliance, obliterating matter and dispersing energies which lie in its path.†   (source)
  • She would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her, and the large hulking Joy, whose constant outrage had obliterated every expression from her face, would stare just a little to the side of her, her eyes icy blue, with the look of someone who has achieved blindness by an act of will and means to keep it.†   (source)
  • In this part of the grounds the old garden has vanished, obliterated by new growth.†   (source)
  • She had waited there on the porch for a time afterward, not moving at all-in a sort of recollection— as if to reach under and bring out from obliteration her protective words and to try them once again … so as to change the whole happening.†   (source)
  • Outside, the village's features obliterated by snow.†   (source)
  • Anger spoke in Rabban: "But you obliterated the traitor, Yueh!†   (source)
  • He pointed to a point above the mountain peaks where blackness obliterated the stars.†   (source)
  • He obliterated the rest of the field at both interviews.†   (source)
  • Richard's face had been painted grey, such a dark grey that the features were all but obliterated.†   (source)
  • Their dignity had been obliterated, replaced with a pervasive sense of shame and worthlessness.†   (source)
  • He was a memory now, obliterated by Kalden and his elegant silhouette, his strong searching hands.†   (source)
  • It obliterated the possibility of any other observation.†   (source)
  • As she obliterates the last of the white statues, the lightning shield holds firm.†   (source)
  • Homesickness welled up within him, and he obliterated the valley with a swipe of his hand.†   (source)
  • With the queendom's looking glasses obliterated, Redd again turned her anger on Jack of Diamonds.†   (source)
  • She felt obliterated, expunged from the room, and was relieved.†   (source)
  • Agony bowed his body in half and obliterated all thought.†   (source)
  • You insinuate that I obliterated Piter as one obliterates a trifle.†   (source)
  • You insinuate that I obliterated Piter as one obliterates a trifle.†   (source)
  • The inrush of water built momentum quickly, obliterating the Kestrel's dock against the stone steps.†   (source)
  • The message had been virtually obliterated.†   (source)
  • On May Day, Elias Bram had obliterated the embassy and fired a shot heard around the world.†   (source)
  • The name it was made out to was obliterated.†   (source)
  • Earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated the coasts.†   (source)
  • They would have to be obliterated individually, up close, at tremendous cost.†   (source)
  • Her scales had cut through the bark and obliterated the delicate patterns grown out from the wood.†   (source)
  • She would be squashed by passion, obliterated.†   (source)
  • I leaned forward, but the noise from the kitchen obliterated his words.†   (source)
  • Everyone else inside had been crushed, burned, obliterated.†   (source)
  • Place your body on the couch so that all points are obliterated.†   (source)
  • Our goal, I suppose, was to obliterate the Soviet Union before they obliterated us.†   (source)
  • I want these soldiers crushed, Jormundur, obliterated, ground out of existence.†   (source)
  • A sudden grin obliterated his woeful indignation.†   (source)
  • Fully half an hour passed before Rosalind succeeded in soothing away the obliterating hullabaloo.†   (source)
  • Centuries of effort obliterated in an instant.†   (source)
  • Anyone standing in front of it would have been obliterated.†   (source)
  • There's metals farther down, but the advanced technology we need for extracting those would have been obliterated."†   (source)
  • Hermione therefore removed the enchantments she had placed around the clearing, while Harry and Ron obliterated all the marks and impressions on the ground that might show they had camped there.†   (source)
  • When Set unleashes it at sunrise—and it will be quite an explosion—Osiris and your father will be obliterated.†   (source)
  • He has tried to rework the memory to show himself in a better light, obliterating those parts which he does not wish me to see.†   (source)
  • That's fine, just as long as you're still okay and— A noise like a tidal wave crashed through the phone, obliterating Simon's voice.†   (source)
  • It was Umbridge's lie that brought the blood surging into Harry's brain and obliterated his sense of caution — that the locket she had taken as a bribe from a petty criminal was being used to bolster her own pure-blood credentials.†   (source)
  • He must notice, because he puts his arm around me and we sit like that for a while, my arms around Sammy, Ben's arm around me, and together the three of us watch the sun break over the horizon, obliterating the dark in a burst of golden light.†   (source)
  • There was nothing below that—shin, ankle, and foot obliterated by the burst of pure electricity from the sky.†   (source)
  • Dart had downed most of a cup of tea and left, shoving the heavy bike up towards the road, leaving an irregular woven track that was later obliterated by afternoon snow.†   (source)
  • I never told him of my life before, never sketched for him the world that had invaded and obliterated the one he and I had shared.†   (source)
  • The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto's long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them.†   (source)
  • Clary squinted hard, but there was no way to tell if this was the street she'd seen at the Bone City—in her vision it had been nearly obliterated with snow.†   (source)
  • There he murdered the Muggle man who had abandoned his witch mother, and, for good measure, his Muggle grandparents, thus obliterating the last of the unworthy Riddle line and revenging himself upon the father who never wanted him.†   (source)
  • Her shop was obliterated, the counter landing across the road, and her framed photo of Hitler was taken from the wall and thrown to the floor.†   (source)
  • When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.†   (source)
  • A month ago, the Capitol's firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam, the shops in the town, even the Justice Building.†   (source)
  • I have been obliterated for her.†   (source)
  • He was curious about himself, of course, but he really didn't want to look at himself and so he kept his eyes directed at his questioner, obliterating himself from the view.†   (source)
  • Worse, the antlers were soft; that is, they were constructed of a floppy material, and therefore these astonishing "horns" were always collapsing upon the faces of the cows themselves—obliterating entirely their already impaired vision, and causing more than usual confusion in the crèche: cows stepping on each other, cows colliding with donkeys, cows knocking down kings and shepherds.†   (source)
  • He was there when an enormous box sailed out of the sun, hit the ground just outside the window, and exploded, obliterating the Bird's office in a cataclysm of American cocoa powder.†   (source)
  • When I made up my mind to go to Hyperion, the Volatiles killed me with the clear intention of obliterating my AI existence if my cybrid again made that decision.†   (source)
  • The face of the man she was carrying was completely obliterated by dressings, with a dark oval hole for his mouth.†   (source)
  • Liesel wrote that sometimes she almost told him about her own brother, like she did with Max, but there seemed a big difference between a long-distance cough and two obliterated legs.†   (source)
  • Harry was standing stock-still as waves of shock crashed over him, wave after wave, obliterating every-thing except the information that had been kept from him for so long … It was Snape who had overheard the prophecy.†   (source)
  • The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.†   (source)
  • Whole sections of the Nut collapse before our eyes, obliterating any sign that human beings have ever set foot on the place.†   (source)
  • …it coiled itself around his torso, squeezing the air from him, pressing the Horcrux hard into his chest, a circle of ice that throbbed with life, inches from his own frantic heart, and his brain was flooding with cold, white light, all thought obliterated, his own breath drowned, distant footsteps, everything going… A metal heart was banging outside his chest, and now he was flying, flying with triumph in his heart, without need of broomstick or thestral… He was abruptly awake in the…†   (source)
  • Advisory $3: Since Subject A is final linkage between Witness $599-6 and File Data 865-01, it is advised that (a) pending revision of Agency Basic Procedures (Refer: Policy 979) Subject A's confinement be continued until termination procedures are approved; or (b) Subject A's condition be sustained until Subject A obliterates.†   (source)
  • It was almost unbearable to turn away from the mass of students streaming out into the sunshine, all of them wearing rosettes and hats and brandishing banners and scarves, to descend the stone steps into the dungeons and walk until the distant sounds of the crowd were quite obliterated, knowing that he would not be able to hear a word of commentary or a cheer or groan.†   (source)
  • There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling.†   (source)
  • The boy Ned helped Lord Beric with his own shield, so hacked and battered that the purple lightning and the scatter of stars upon it had almost been obliterated.†   (source)
  • The earth swallowed the Field of Mars, obliterating every trace of forts and trenches from the war games.†   (source)
  • When the next weapon, a short sword, was obliterated in the same manner, the giant gazed at the gathered shards and sighed.†   (source)
  • His stars are different from the ones in the Bible: they're wordless, they flame in an obliterating silence.†   (source)
  • He inhaled, appreciating the skill with which Nasuada had asserted her individuality without obliterating Ajihad's memory.†   (source)
  • Not only did her bowling ball knock down the pins, the force of her stomping obliterated the pins in all twelve lanes, making Alex the first elephant in history, as far I knew, to score a perfect 300, twelve strikes, with only one throw.†   (source)
  • The rough music obliterated all other sound, as well as the host of frantic thoughts that had been bedeviling Nasuada.†   (source)
  • Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by 1% seconds, he had dragged early in the race.†   (source)
  • Both Pollack and Fittich sensed an approaching end to the world as they knew it, but the oncoming tidal wave that Fittich perceived was dark and cold and obliterating, while Pollack foresaw a wave of purest light.†   (source)
  • There was a terrifying innocence in Yves' face, a beautiful yielding: in some marvelous way, for Yves, this moment in this bed obliterated, cast into the sea of forgetfulness, all the sordid beds and squalid grappling which had led him here.†   (source)
  • If there had been any question as to whether or not Ordo Maas deserved a large measure of respect, it was obliterated by Bert's response to his appearance.†   (source)
  • Rams smashed to the ground as Max slew those carrying them; catapults toppled as YaYa obliterated their heavy beams and supports.†   (source)
  • Our expedition faced more than its share of difficulty: A long storm wiped out most of our food rations and an avalanche devastated our camp, obliterating our tents.†   (source)
  • And I was hopelessly disarmed by it, and the wordless vision of our living together expanded and obliterated every other consideration in my mind.†   (source)
  • Made his own arrangements, payments funneled through third and fourth parties unknown to each other, the source untraceable, all connections to the Agency and Treadstone obliterated.†   (source)
  • And it was unlikely that anything in these SEALs' careers would match their rotation in 2008, when they'd obliterated the network of insurgents and IED builders in Iraq with back-to-back nightly raids and sometimes back-to-back raids in a single night.†   (source)
  • And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head, they were his insomnia, his illness.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, they strode over Trench Nineteen and reached the chasm, obliterating the bridges with their tentacles.†   (source)
  • Word by word, the spell obliterated everything that defined them as thinking creatures, and the Forsworn had no choice but to watch in silent misery as their dragons descended into complete ignorance.†   (source)
  • "Come on, you guys, we gotta get these guns off the beach," he called to his men, and then was obliterated by a mortar shell.†   (source)
  • Despite what I had seen, despite the destruction of all I had once taken for granted, despite the wounds I had sustained and my memory of men, far better than me, who were obliterated, I was overwhelmed with gratitude, inexorable, intoxicating gratitude.†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' I answered, feeling that all-consuming subject alive again, obliterating all concerns as it always had for me.†   (source)
  • The intrusive touch frightened Roran, obliterating everything but the conviction that he and the rest of the villagers were in mortal danger.†   (source)
  • Az Sweldn rak Anhuin, for example-whom Galbatorix and the Forsworn had nearly obliterated during their uprising-had declared themselves Eragon's blood enemies during his visit to the city of Tarnag and, in every action of theirs at the clanmeet, had demonstrated their implacable hatred of Eragon, Saphira, and all things to do with dragons and those who rode them.†   (source)
  • When nearly two hundred Japanese bombers arrived over Manila, ten hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, they simply obliterated this fleet, which sat in convenient clusters on the tarmac.†   (source)
  • Alessandro asked, never failing to be astonished that his mother, who had had no formal education, did not understand that getting rid of doctoral candidates was a process equivalent to starving a plant rather than obliterating it, and that it never took less than five or ten years.†   (source)
  • But his agony obliterated me.†   (source)
  • But much of the palace was damaged, its gatehouse a charred ruin while several of the towers had collapsed into the inner bailey, obliterating a handful of smaller buildings in the process.†   (source)
  • Max glimpsed one archer literally covered by the creatures, which had almost carried the screaming man away before Bob obliterated them with a vicious swing of his cudgel.†   (source)
  • Eragon manages to convince her to turn back, but by then his home has been obliterated by the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • Then, safe from the carabinieri, Alessandro would speed through the foliage, enchanted by the dark leaves and the wind in the pines until he emerged from the forest at the coast, onto an empty white beach with the sound of the waves obliterating his hard breathing and the wind cooling his sweat-drenched horse.†   (source)
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