How to Use oblivion in a Sentence

oblivion

noun
  • The names of the people who lived here long ago have faded into oblivion.
  • After being awake for three days straight, he longed for the oblivion of sleep.
  • The little village was bulldozed into oblivion to make way for the airport.
  • The technology is destined for oblivion.
  • She drank herself into oblivion.
  • His theories have faded into scientific oblivion.
  • Her work was rescued from oblivion when it was rediscovered in the early 1900s.
  • My love, there is no oblivion, no dream.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And oh yes, the top half stretched to oblivion.
    — Emily Temple august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Not even ketchup was going to bring them back from bland oblivion.
    — Sharrona Pearl, Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
  • No house or piece of land or chest of letters, just a few weeks of oblivion.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • For some the virus was just a hoax, a farce that would fade away into oblivion.
    — Rony Ortiz Andrade, Houston Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2020
  • What goes up must come down, so Styles then falls into oblivion.
    — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 13 July 2022
  • Player touched end zone and the ball was spiked into oblivion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Yet even in a road trip to oblivion, there’s the hint of new beginnings.
    — Jon Bailes, Wired, 11 June 2021
  • But where does one turn when their go-to faves have been watched—and re-watched—into oblivion?
    — Jennifer M. Wood, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
  • In the end, about three-quarters of all species were swept into oblivion.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This team was sleep walking towards the edge of oblivion and didn’t seem to care.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The prospect of death was ever present, and oblivion could come to anyone in a flash.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The potlikker is where all the good stuff goes while the greens boiled toward soft oblivion.
    — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Even the guest features are reverbed to oblivion.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The sample won’t allow the egg to pass into the oblivion of hot rice.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • From oblivion to an early contender for the sixth man of the year is a long journey.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Nine years when anybody who tried to alert the public would get sued into oblivion.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The comfort of a childhood bed and washed-into-oblivion soft sheets call to me.
    — Maggie Lange, SELF, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The Supreme Court needs to take this case — and then nuke it into oblivion.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Had someone removed his body from the slope, or had the jet stream or an avalanche swept it into oblivion?
    — Mark Synnott, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • She has been bimbofied into oblivion.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Lloyd Reuss is also the man who saved the Riviera from oblivion.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023

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