How to Use wiped out in a Sentence

wiped out

adjective
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  • I am completely wiped out.
  • Two years had passed since the marines wiped out the H’s.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And by March, all those gains had been all but wiped out.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • Utah wiped out a five-point deficit in the final minute of of the first quarter to tie the game at 24l.
    — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
  • That's about how much has been wiped out from the stock market this year.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Instead, the Spurs wiped out the entire deficit in the span of 6½ minutes.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Paul and McGee both picked up fouls that wiped out 3-point hits by the Cavs in the second half.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The species was thought to have been wiped out across its range, from the Red Sea to the western Bay of Bengal.
    — Priyanka Runwal, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The failure of the South’s war meant that its creditors were wiped out.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But the rising costs of food, gas, and rent has wiped out gains for many households.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The reason for this was down to the fact that Samus had wiped out the main predator of the X Parasites, the Metroids.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Three months in, more than triple that figure have had their debts wiped out.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But the rising cost of food, gas, and rent has wiped out these wage gains for many households.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • That triggered a mass extinction that wiped out the mosasaurs and 70% of all species on Earth.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Carter Bradley hit Brandon Crum for 30 yards to the Troy 4, but a holding call wiped out the big gain.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Rainbow trout once ruled the fishery but were wiped out by whirling disease in the 1990s.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • This year’s 87% plunge in the stock has wiped out about $47 billion in market value.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Both of the county’s two deaths occurred there, and houses there have been wiped out.
    — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The Aztecs feasted on this until disease wiped out their empire in the 1500s.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The series has been one of on-court amnesia, as the slate gets wiped clean and one team gets wiped out each game.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Think of the mass extinction 65 million years ago that wiped out most of the dinosaurs.
    — Casey Dreier, Scientific American, 25 July 2021
  • In the first half, the Raiders mustered just one first down and saw their 51 yards of offense wiped out by 53 yards in penalties.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Last year, more than 10% of the world’s sequoia trees were wiped out by a single wildfire.
    — Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Kristie didn’t play in her first season, and the pandemic wiped out the 2020 schedule.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Among them is Timarie Czichas, a 55-year-old from the Phoenix area whose small business was wiped out in the pandemic.
    — Michael Sasso, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • Tommy John surgery wiped out most of the last two seasons, and a rib cage injury has cost him more than half of 2022.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • Egypt had won the first leg, narrowly, but saw its lead wiped out within a few minutes of the start of the second.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The car was parked in a driveway off Highway 96, west of the town of Klamath River, which was nearly wiped out by the flames.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The play was wiped out by a roughing-the-passer call when the Steelers hit Mayfield, so the play didn’t count as a target.
    — cleveland, 1 Nov. 2021
  • With the origin differential lower than zero, the benefit from the LID has been wiped out.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023

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