How To Use Wiped out In A Sentence

If the murrelet is rebounding, it's because the park service wiped out native predators.
Its earlier refinancing wiped out its debt pile and left the group with cash. Times, Sunday Times
Around the same time, an invasive worm called the teredo ravaged the docks and pilings along the waterfront, and periodic fires wiped out most of the buildings. SFGate: Top News Stories
The invention of penicillin effectively wiped out the staph infection problem in hospitals, but after the bacteria developed resistance to it, methicillin became the standard treatment in 1960.
The apple crop was wiped out by blight.

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Later that day, other enlisted radiomen/gunners helped even the score, protecting their dive-bomber pilots as they wiped out the enemy carrier force, sinking all four Japanese flattops.
The subsequent slump wiped out 49% of peak values. Times, Sunday Times
They are often found in Japanese temple precincts and are so tough that a few specimens survived the Hiroshima blast when all other vegetation was wiped out. Times, Sunday Times
That wiped out early gains as gilts tracked bunds lower. Times, Sunday Times
No, we didn't actually get nuked or wiped out by ebola or nerve gas; aliens didn't land on the White House lawn.
If the whole population was wiped out by Asian bird flu tomorrow, the sun would still rise; it is part of the external physical world.
The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out.
Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literateness, wiped out. The Girl Wanted
That same night an entire catch crew was wiped out by a truck wreck.
The disaster wiped out a third of the country's cotton crop. Times, Sunday Times
Then about 150 years ago the glacial dam burst, loosing a 100-foot, landscape-scouring wave that wiped out entire villages.
Three generations of the same family were also wiped out. The Sun
For example, they are calculating what would happen if a swine-flu pandemic wiped out most of their employees, contemplating questions regarding how the bank continues to operate and even who would restock cash machines. For U.K. Banks, a Calamity Is Born
Whether the group is delisted or sold on to a new owner, existing shareholders will see their investments wiped out. Times, Sunday Times
Personal debts amassed while trying to keep his enterprise breathing wiped out a larger portion of his take. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
‘Sargent hunger’ overtook the salesrooms; the pictures alone fetched [pound] 182,585, and the price records for Sargent's work and modern art in general were ‘wiped out.’
Disaster hit 100 years ago in the form of the phylloxera insect pest that spread from mainland Europe and wiped out production, until a group of local farmers revived the tradition in the 1990s by importing vines from Italy. Mapping Mallorca
Much of the rich, original bird and plant life was wiped out by early settlers, who left behind their domestic animals to create further ruination.
Whole floors of people are being wiped out and a generation of bankers lost. Times, Sunday Times
It is thought that in other parts of the world competition from crocodiles wiped out most labyrinthodont species.
The bankrupt corporations and banks will be wiped out and their debts repaid by taxpayers.
He was not insured for either loss, and they follow the disastrous John Street Market fire last year which wiped out Mr Raper's stall.
These cups have been thoroughly wiped out.
The film's subject matter of human civilization wiped out by the elements is eerily highlighted by newsworthy weather events of 2003, including the heatwaves in Europe and India that killed tens of thousands of people.
Dr Woonton says some critics of the old superannuation scheme had suggested that it should be completely wiped out, but this would not only be harsh and cruel, but would be against the law.
The old values have been wiped out
The frailty of memory in general is an important theme, but how an epidemic of that proportion gets virtually wiped out of the collective memory is still a mystery.
The purpose of the current expedition is to reconstruct the world of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) before Western man set foot on the island of Mauritius and wiped out the species. More Dodo Expeditie Info
With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out.
One fragment of that ancient smashup may have struck Earth 65 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Ianrandalstrock: Maybe it's a Romulan warbird
Existing shareholders will be wiped out. Times, Sunday Times
In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
Puffins, wiped out by an infestation of rats introduced by quarry workers in the 19th century, are now rebounding, albeit slowly.
Georgia ran up the hill in the hazy morning sunshine, past the sign for the Tomba Etrusca, nearing the spot where she had wiped out, taking a bite-size chunk out of her shoulder and a bigger bite out of her ego. Georgia’s Kitchen
Nyjer Morgan led off the inning with a bunt single which was actually misplayed by Capuano, who made an ill-advised attempt to swipe at Morgan with his glove, rather than make the safer play and throw to first, but Morgan was wiped out on a double play grounder from Ian Desmond. Live blog: Nationals at Mets, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The disease wiped out 40 million rabbits at a stroke.
But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices.
That is if we are not first wiped out by global warming or a meteorite strike. Times, Sunday Times
The Lieutenant and 80 soldiers, much against orders, pursued the attackers and were wiped out when they were decoyed into an ambush of 1,000 waiting warriors.
We warred fiercely and valiantly, but I now question the honor in all that if it wiped out a village in the process—which many times it did. Surrender the Dark
The queenside was wiped out and black's rooks are ready to invade white's position. Lubomir Kavalek: The Great London Chess Debate
His house was made of mud and had been almost wiped out, but his fence was perfect.
Taking up a little tumbler, in shape like those from which French postilions used to drink la goutte, he inspected it narrowly, wiped out the interior with his forefinger, filled it to the brim, and offered it to his guest28 with a bow. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
One day, thousands of years from now, after the devastating effects of climate change have successfully wiped out the majority of twenty-first century American culture through some cataclysmic disaster that leaves only ruins to be studied, much like how our society now studies ancient Babylon, the children of the future will be sitting in their futuristic classrooms watching the only remaining DVD of our era, which just so happens to be the first season of Big Time Rush, and the teacher is going to say, "This was the pinnacle of twenty-first century American musical achievement," and somewhere in the ethos (* insert name of composer who you feel best represents twenty-first century American musical achievement*) will cry out in despair. NewMusicBox
The British contingent was almost wiped out in one afternoon. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
I was going too fast and I wiped out on the bend.
It was like the hacienda and the village below -- all humans had been wiped out by a plague. SNOWLINE
While he managed to fight as far as the fourth line of trenches, by 3.30 pm practically his whole battalion had been wiped out by German artillery.
The sin, the error, the evil is to be wiped out and erased from memory. Christianity Today
That would see small investors' holdings wiped out entirely before the tranche of loans owned by the hedge funds suffered a penny of losses. Times, Sunday Times
International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus.
His Shibboleth was, that the disgrace of the State must be wiped out by the repeal of the Yazoo Act; and _repeal_ rang from every mouth, from Savannah to the mountains. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
In an independent operation in September, the doughboys completely wiped out the salient at St. Mihiel, bringing the German assault to a standstill.
Last year's profits were virtually wiped out.
Science has wiped out many killer diseases and may soon zap the rest.
The boatbuilding industry has been affected but not wiped out.
After the Europeans came to this island, they wiped out countless babbling brooks, streams and rivers that flowed throughout the island down from the mountain.
The investment bank holds $437 million in debt ranked below the note, meaning it would be wiped out if the more senior debtholder was able to go through with the foreclosure. Lehman Wins Approval to Hire Sotheby's for Art Auction
However despite everyone's best efforts, all our forest and remnant vegetation was wiped out.
About to be wiped out in Nov? remember permanent republican majority? Think Progress » Lauer Calls Out Cantor’s Claim That The GOP Stood ‘Ready And Willing’ To Work With Obama On The Stimulus
The premise of Ôoku is simple: three-fourths of the men in Edo Japan are wiped out by a mysterious plague, and when it becomes clear that the disease is not burning itself out anytime soon, the women have to step into all the roles previously assigned to men. Pancha Diaz on Ooku « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.
Saying they smelled a shakedown, shareholders, who are usually wiped out in a bankruptcy, also jumped to its defense.
He said it was based on an underspend in the past year, and when this was combined with inflation, the increase was virtually wiped out.
He and his passengers were nearly wiped out a couple of times by the driver he referred to as a madman.
In four communities, they found that even though the ivermectin had wiped out 100 percent of microfilariae in 99 percent of the patients, the parasites swiftly bounced back. ANC Daily News Briefing
Many speculators were instantly wiped out, while the less capitalized insurers were left at or near insolvency.
The traces of oil in the waters after the skimmer is deployed are wiped out by use of absorbent pads.
Epidemics wiped out villages, uprooted tribes, and undermined resistance to European territorial incursions.
After a fix of chocolate, my energy levels would soon crash and burn and by supper-time I'd be wiped out again and desperate for a glass of wine.
Any remote chance of a recovery was soon wiped out as Newport bagged two quickfire tries after the restart.
Like Tremblay, he promises to help municipalities wiped out by the megacity maintain their sense of community.
We're in the middle of a terrible drought, wool prices are the lowest they've been for ten years, the webworm outbreak has wiped out half the crops, and the banks are cutting back our overdrafts.
A Yorkshire smallholder kept the wolf from the door after her business was wiped out by foot and mouth by selling the fleeces of rare breed sheep over the Internet.
It was not until rinderpest, or cattle plague, a highly fatal and contagious disease, wiped out seven per cent of the national herd between 1865 to 1867, that views on controlling animal disease changed, says Dr Woods.
They either face being wiped out through nationalisation - or seeing a significant upside if the company survives. The Sun
The Zealots obliterated a reinforced legion (Legio XII Fulminata) from Syria, which was heavily garrisoned until the moment the Romans were wiped out at Yarmuk, at the very beginning of the war, and for a time, were in near complete control of Iudaea. Matthew Yglesias » Toy Drives Checking Immigration Status of Children
It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn. Betrayed!
Small producers warn the industry could be wiped out if the EU gets its way, along with hundreds of ancient cider orchards and jobs. The Sun
All the higher wizards, mages and sorcerers were wiped out.
Smoke-stack industry jobs that used to pay a decent wage have been wiped out.
The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion.
Three generations of the same family were also wiped out. The Sun
In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
Small, unsurfaced roads dipping through gullies and ravines are apt to get wiped out from flash flooding, and help in remote areas usually is slow in coming.
Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore.
The depression that followed the conclusion of war wiped out some manufacturers when British goods again flooded the market.
The sin, the error, the evil is to be wiped out and erased from memory. Christianity Today
Not only that, but an antimatter meteor from the Lucifer system struck Earth, wiped out the dinosaurs, allowed mammals to find their niche, and produced humans -- in other words, Lucifer brought about original sin. Archive 2007-02-01
The water in our area is “très calcaire” very chalky and leaves marks sticking everywhere, so, the sooner it's wiped out the better. Une pantoufle - French Word-A-Day
The town was wiped out by the earthquake.
Roughly a third of those are exhibiting signs of pneumonia -- typically caused by pathogens, notably pasteurella and mycoplasma, that in some cases wiped out entire herds. Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News
Residents scrambled to stockpile food and authorities ordered ships to remain docked as southern China geared up for a super typhoon after it killed 15 people and wiped out crops in the northern Philippines. World Watch
Five million workers want a hike because their rises have been wiped out by inflation. The Sun
It follows that the dwarfishness was not wiped out, but that it was temporarily obscured in the second generation, though present all the time potentially. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Research was hampered because few details were actually recorded, but the filmmakers discovered the horror of the village of Acol where practically the entire population was wiped out by the plague. Kos RSS Feed
Last night, it emerged that on the same day as the raid, computer files belonging to the British consultant investigating the oil-for-food scandal were destroyed by hackers and a back-up databank in his Baghdad office wiped out.
Fowlpox virus is thought to have wiped out some species. The Sun
Sorry, Jesus Christ wasn't based on any real historical figure, he was made up out of whole cloth using the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures as the guide after the Romans destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and wiped out its population in 70 C.E., then backdated 40 years to create an instant prophet of Jehovah who had been rejected and therefore had brought the calamity on. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Personal debts amassed while trying to keep his enterprise breathing wiped out a larger portion of his take. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
The force was almost wiped out when an errant 2,000-pound bomb pulverized a section of the massive fortress wail.
The weakest new projects should also get wiped out quickly. Times, Sunday Times
Illiteracy has been wiped out in our village.
UP to 15,000 CO-OP bondholders who faced having their investments wiped out by a plan to save the troubled bank yesterday scored a huge victory. The Sun
Benefits to the environment from increased use of public transport were wiped out by a steep rise in car journeys and commercial flights. Times, Sunday Times
Its earlier refinancing wiped out its debt pile and left the group with cash. Times, Sunday Times
If financing costs rise, or if the five-year note goes down in price, the carry can be wiped out.
The more diverse DDO clades, which were entirely wiped out, included a broad range of colony sizes-some very robust forms as well as others with complex branching and long stipes, but also many species with quite diminutive colonies.
If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure, the species will be wiped out by a rival.
Don’t worry boyz, the Bushman is gonna tell us tonight that he’s got it all figured out and if ya don’t support his plan the ‘tard is gonna tell ya alot of scary stuff is gonna happen … like yer 401k gettin’ wiped out … The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog
Personal debts amassed while trying to keep his enterprise breathing wiped out a larger portion of his take. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
the plague wiped out an entire population
The pilot wiped out his flight controls, throttled the engines to military thrust, and quickly checked the instruments.
Bolivia and Ecuador are also threatened by glacier melt and Colombia's costal and riverside cities are being wiped out by floods and landslides - disasters that are only expected to get worse, according to a study by the Pew Center on Climate Change. Glacier melt in Peru becomes more than a climate issue
International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus.
You didn't, because after the Europeans came to this island, they wiped out countless babbling brooks, streams and rivers that flowed throughout the island down from the mountain.
When fields are fumigated, good and bad microbes alike may be wiped out.
The subsequent slump wiped out 49% of peak values. Times, Sunday Times
Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says.
The real brilliant fraudulence (fraudulent brilliance?) of this is, because all equity shareholders have been wiped out, and virtually all creditors who would challenge this are gone, no class action can arise from what is simply debt-shifting, and re-upping a lending facility (at further taxpayer expense). Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Outright Fraud
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
Whole villages were wiped out in the fighting.
Their moving spirit being wiped out, the Huns lost whatever heart they had had, and went through their "Kamerad" exercise without further ado. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
That wiped out early gains as gilts tracked bunds lower. Times, Sunday Times
If this happens, the impact of the price cut will be immediately wiped out, because Australian petrol prices are pegged to world oil prices, measured in US dollars.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
A political novice, Simpson all but wiped out Trimble's personal majority of 15,000 votes.
Wildlife habitats, wetlands and watersheds have been wiped out all over the place.
Not least when, despite all the success, she was left virtually penniless thanks to an astronomical tax bill that wiped out the band. The Sun
Studies confirm the most delicate and exotic species - butterflies, dragonflies, otters, kingfishers, woodpeckers - do indeed get wiped out.
Now it already looks like he may be wiped out. The Sun
Klint Kubiak's end zone interception was wiped out by a roughing the passer penalty and three plays later, Ryan Wolfe ran around left end for 13-yard touchdown. USATODAY.com
There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said. Canada.com Top Stories
Many major art works were destroyed, and the local artists' studios housed in the towers were wiped out.
That makes the famous mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago seem like a minor die-off.
I feel wiped out after fourteen hours! Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
The national bourgeoisie is agitated by the threat of being wiped out economically by import liberalization and other antinational and anti-industrial policies, and tends to make stronger demands for protection. Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution
The English ruling class was wiped out and the character of the nation altered forever.
But any such gains would be wiped out by a backlash from your core pro-life constituents.
Dowries, stockpiled for years by parents and a vital part of negotiations in arranged marriages, have been wiped out. Times, Sunday Times
The night raid was made right under the noses of a full pack of hounds and 15 head of poultry were wiped out.
The choice of the enemy troops has been completely wiped out.
In addition, competition for career-building prizes and an overemphasis on design have wiped out the brief, a single "shortie" article that could set the town talking for days. Today's Newspaper: Read It and Weep for the Good Old Days
But hey, if they wiped out its whole population and moved in transplants from Center City, I wouldn't complain!
The institution had been wiped out in New England, not by enfranchisement, but by sale to the people of the South, when no longer useful or valuable at home; and all the sin of slavery had followed the slave, to barbarize and degrade the people of the South. The Memories of Fifty Years
Torgesen fled a bunker in Cu Chi before explosives wiped out more than two dozen other members of the 25th Infantry Division, said Dennis Heroes or Villains?
For most people, the right brain is being wiped out. Times, Sunday Times
Innocent lives were cruelly and pointlessly wiped out.
Soon the scouts were riding through towering trees, unobscured by undergrowth, as it had been long since permanently wiped out by the hundreds of hooves that passed over it every year.
It seems so cruel that so many lives could be wiped out in just a split second. Times, Sunday Times
Whole villages were wiped out in the bombing raids.
But Preston were knocked sideways by the shock of seeing their impregnable lead suddenly wiped out.
We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine.
They wiped out an eight-point deficit from the away leg to win 97-85 overall and take the aggregate bonus point.
Since 1994, an epidemic of an infectious eye disease called mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, which began in poultry, has wiped out 60 per cent of house finches in the eastern US. New Scientist - Online News
Russia yesterday said wildfires and drought had wiped out a QUARTER of its wheat crop. The Sun
I know of cases where cannabis has almost wiped out pain from such diseases as arthritis.
How would you feel if you slipped up and, say, wiped out half of your pot just a few years before you planned to retire?
Once nearly wiped out by poachers who made shawls from its wool, the chiru's numbers have increased in recent years, and the knobby-kneed bovid has emerged as a symbol of China's environmental-protection efforts. China Eats Crow
And, in fact, if it hadn't been for outside support the partisans would have been wiped out in no time.
We have 31 trillion dollars of government, corporate and consumer debt which is over three times our annual gross national product and which experts claim can never be wiped out except through a ruinous level of inflation.
The best movie of the year, which no one saw, is Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a terrifying vision of a dystopian future in which language has deteriorated to a series of agrammatical corporate logos, the only mention of history is a vague assertion that "the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Nazis," and anyone who speaks in full sentences is derided as a "fag. Frankie Thomas: On Becoming Adequite: or, Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn't Cast in The History Boys
Our stocks were wiped out on the first day and it was a full time job keeping the children supplied with their favourite which was bananas.
The colonists (known as the junkmen) are in danger of being wiped out by the planet's predatory animal and plantlife. Times, Sunday Times
“He was wiped out with some two hundred and fifty men at the Little Bighorn, which is a creek in Montana, I believe.” Telegraph Days
THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths. The Sun
A snowstorm wiped out live racing at five tracks in the Eastern United States on Sunday.
The choice of the enemy troops has been completely wiped out.
The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit.
The tragic story of the towelhead that wiped out Bhutto. BHUTTO BIO BLUEPRINT BEFORE BODY BURIED
In one day and night, he gibed, ‘all those who had any power and authority were wiped out… till no chief remained to ask after any followers.’
The disaster wiped out a third of the country's cotton crop. Times, Sunday Times
The regiment was virtually wiped out in the first battle.
Dynegy, instead, embarked on an eight-year process to winnow debt—down from about $15 billion to less than $5 billion by the end of 2010—and avoid bankruptcy, which would have wiped out the value of common shares. Dynegy Top Officers, Directors to Leave
I would really hate to see all that focus and support be wiped out by something I see as being stoppable.
I found myself getting an absolute killer of a massage that wiped out pretty much all the stress my back and shoulders had received from too much computer time at work.
THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths. The Sun
Even if this particular pocket is wiped out, there is more important unfinished business.
Five million workers want a hike because their rises have been wiped out by inflation. The Sun
She got angry and wiped out her name on the blackboard.
The computers which keep the records of thousands of new members were wiped out, leaving repair staff working round-the-clock. The Sun
The sin, the error, the evil is to be wiped out and erased from memory. Christianity Today
Roughly a third of those are exhibiting signs of pneumonia - typically caused by pathogens, notably pasteurella and mycoplasma, that in some cases wiped out entire herds. Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News
This vase wasn't wiped out properly before it was put away.
And on more than one occasion, a late winter storm had wiped out entire armadas of their felucca ships.
Cadfael sighed, having seen in his time a long line of decent men wiped out in alternate savageries as the result of just such a death. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
In tests it killed all known germs on contact and wiped out airborne bugs by 95 per cent. The Sun
Ditto, if it is wiped out by higher inflation. Times, Sunday Times
The kirana owners fear that they will be wiped out by the big foreign and domestic competitors. Times, Sunday Times
Conservationists are planning to build an artificial reef to bring a once-prolific in-shore fishery wiped out by trawlers back to life.
That roiled his colleagues and, some argued, prolonged a stoppage that wiped out the World Series.
But the bottom line is that it is attempting to prevent its citizens from being wiped out, in a war that has been waged against it without interruption for more than half a decade by people who wish to eradicate it.
Benefits to the environment from increased use of public transport were wiped out by a steep rise in car journeys and commercial flights. Times, Sunday Times
Tropical deceases that were wiped out in Britain in the 1950s like TB are making a comeback. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The earthquake wiped out the whole town.
Yes, Bill Gross will hate it, but subordinate debtholders in bailed-out institutions should be wiped out, and senior creditors should take a major haircut. Matthew Yglesias » Kristof on Nationalization

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