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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This year’s 87% plunge in the stock has wiped out about $47 billion in market value.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bankman-Fried said his personal wealth has been wiped out.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • With the implosion of FTX, this investor’s stake, once valued in the millions, was wiped out.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • But those winners were largely wiped out in 2020 (Horn lost).
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That means, at least in the short term, your score may drop a few dozen points if your balance is wiped out by the forgiveness plan.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In 2020 the pandemic wiped out four of the world’s six major marathons, including all three in the United States, and put off the Olympics for a year.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The debt was not listed in the PAC’s next report—nor was an explanation for how it was wiped out.
    — Zach Everson, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Tribal leaders predict the language could be wiped out in a decade.
    — ABC News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Circumstances played a role, as the pandemic wiped out the past two state meets.
    — oregonlive, 20 May 2022
  • When the pandemic hit, many feared small businesses would be wiped out by the shutdown.
    — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2022
  • Stark will have all of her student loan debt wiped out by the move and her husband will have half of his eliminated.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The Sumatran rhino was declared extinct in Malaysia in 2015 but the death of the female, called Iman, meant the species had been completely wiped out there.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Making the turn on her opening pass, wearing a black dress and very high heels, Bella rolled her ankle and wiped out.
    — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The cash infusion from Sixth Street will mean the club’s short-term debt will be wiped out and replaced with $260 million available to spend.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Oh was a high school senior when her parents’ small clothing store in a South L.A. swap meet was wiped out by looters.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The variety prevents a repeat of what happened six decades ago when Dutch elm disease wiped out all the elms.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2022

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