How to Use rub out in a Sentence

rub out

verb
  • Any slight excess can be wet sanded down and then rubbed out.
    — Paul Wright, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Soak the garment in water and gently rub out the stain with your fingers.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • His vision started blacking in from all sides like it was being rubbed out with an eraser.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2018
  • The resort can arrange a local masseuse to rub out all that daring inside the comfort of your cabin.
    — Rina Nehdar, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But an Irish knock-on rubbed out a try for Jack Conan, and the second chance was turned over by Mann.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Use a dry erase marker instead of a Sharpie when designing to easily rub out any mistakes or errant marks.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Exotic has served a year of his more than 20-year sentence for attempting to hire a hitman to rub out Baskin.
    — Ben Feuerherd, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The poison in question has spattered from the tips of African weapons for centuries, rubbing out wild beasts and halting the hearts of warriors.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Garces rubbed out another try by Fiji without video review because a forward pass was obvious.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • This treacherous gang has phenomenally rubbed out many signatures of independence in a very short time.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
  • No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Well, not really all that impressive since Putin effectively wiped out (or rubbed out) any serious opposition.
    — Cal Thomas , Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • An extensive torture campaign has been documented by human rights workers, intended to rub out any sense of disloyalty from the military.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Also on the trail is a gangster named Clyde (John Magaro), who’s been sent to redo the job of rubbing out the mysteriously undead Ida.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • His mission, ostensibly, is to retrieve the sword and rub out Akemi, who’s just turned 21 and unknowingly inherited the Kawa crime family empire.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
  • His government and its allies have been changing place names to Hindu from Muslim, rubbing out historic Muslim figures from textbooks and celebrating lynch mobs who murdered Muslims.
    — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • For at-home maintenance, Away (which doesn’t cover superficial markings under warranty), recommends using a Magic Eraser sponge to rub out scuffs and scratches, while Rimowa suggests using isopropyl alcohol as a cleaning and restoring agent.
    — Laura Neilson, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021

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