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Example sentences for "erasing"

Lexicographically close words:
eras; erase; erased; eraser; erasers; erasure; erasures; erat; erba; erbe
  1. Applied a compound, sensitive to ink erasing chemicals, AFTER the writing has been placed on the paper.

  2. The other end was flattened for erasing marks made on wax and smoothing it.

  3. The council is authorized to ascertain the facts of any case for the exercise of its powers of erasing and restoring by committee (ib.

  4. The council is required to ascertain facts, in the exercise of its powers of erasing and restoring, by a committee of their own body of not more than five, and a written report of the committee may be acted on by the council (ib.

  5. In the Grand Lodge alone," they declare, "resides the power of erasing lodges and expelling Brethren from the craft, a power which it ought not to delegate to any subordinate authority in England.

  6. This may be illustrated by the fact that both Tertullian and Epiphanius reproach Marcion with erasing passages from the Gospel of Luke, which never were in Luke at all.

  7. The shafts are all of the same white tint, no attention being paid to the colors of the cardinal points; yet in drawing and erasing the picture the cardinal points are duly honored.

  8. In erasing the serpents, he began with the figures in the east and followed the apparent course of the sun, ending with the figures in the north.

  9. Most of all, I saw illuminated clearly the brash self poke of logic that came massively when sunlight stirred, lilted its early head erasing the world thru sand crusts of colour.

  10. An erasing wind whips the fields further into bereavement; turns tiny bits of chaff to pursue themselves in a mad St. Vitus dance of cold passion.

  11. Quickness and keenness of sense are gained only in proportion to the power of quieting the senses not in use, and erasing previous impressions upon the sense which is active at the time.

  12. Smoothing Paper after Erasing [29] When an ink line is erased the roughened surface of the paper should be smoothed or polished so as to prevent the succeeding lines of ink from spreading.

  13. The opinion I am now putting forth with respect to the erasing of the fleurs-de-lis, which I upheld very conspicuously at that time by my resignation, was also the opinion of Casimir PĂ©rier.

  14. Has law no power to stay the erasing pen, and tear off the scrawled label that covers up the IMAGE OF GOD?

  15. Still, it is very easy to find; and the operation, of erasing it, is nearly as easy as that of erasing any other Class.

  16. Meanwhile, the queen, with the pen still in her hand, was thoughtfully considering the list before her and calmly and deliberately erasing name after name, until not one remained.

  17. It is not clumsy as the usual chunk of rubber with a blunt point, for the person erasing can see what he is doing.

  18. The saving of erasers is nothing compared to the convenience of having a small eraser with a chisel edge or point when delicate erasing is required.

  19. The roughened paper caused by erasing can be easily smoothed with the ring.

  20. Erasing done with this knife will readily take ink without further preparation of the surface.

  21. The whole kingdom rung with the sound of warlike preparations, and the ancient valour of the Scottish heart was blithened with the hope of erasing the stains that a wicked government had brought upon the honour of the land.

  22. There is some difficulty in erasing his tonsure; but this difficulty with a little violence and cruelty is overcome.

  23. Mr. Hallam says, that in consequence of this, "an unfortunate practice gained ground of erasing a manuscript in order to substitute another on the same skin.

  24. This is done either by erasing words and printing others in their place, or by pasting on the original bill a piece of counterfeit work or a piece taken from some genuine bill.

  25. If any one will try the experiment of erasing an ink-mark on ordinary writing paper, and then writing over the erasure, he will notice a striking difference between the letters on the unaltered surface.

  26. It is probable that ink and pencil alterations and erasures are more frequently made with a sharp steel scraper and ink-erasing sand rubber than otherwise.

  27. A piece of paper was handed to me for the purpose of determining if part of it had been wet and if another part of it had been manipulated for the purpose of erasing marks upon it; in other words, whether this part had been rubbed.

  28. As her hand passed reluctantly over it she said aloud: "I'm erasing my blackboard too.

  29. Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena!

  30. Thirty years ago, this quarter was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings.

  31. Something I had was important enough to both sides to make them keep me on the loose instead of erasing me and my nuisance value.

  32. She ran upstairs, and returned with the powder which her mother had used, in erasing the first sentences on the label attached to the blue-glass bottle.

  33. This extraordinary specific may also be used for erasing written characters without in any way injuring the paper, otherwise than by leaving a slight shine on the surface.

  34. We should early form the habit of erasing from the mind all disagreeable, unhealthy, death-dealing thoughts.

  35. The future, to which his hope already lent its bright colors, was rapidly erasing the past, and in the confidence of his youth he was fashioning a hundred schemes of life to come.

  36. He felt a kind of malicious pleasure in erasing and effacing, as it were, every trace of the last few months.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erasing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.