How to Use the face of the earth in a Sentence
the face of the earth
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Wipe the human race off the face of the earth.
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Caroline Rose Giuliani,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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For the Šobats, that life fell clean off the face of the earth.
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Sean Williams,
Outside,
27 Oct. 2025
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Some people just drop off the face of the earth for a minute, and don’t get back until later.
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Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
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Lastly, don’t drop off the face of the earth after the first several months.
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Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
9 Mar. 2026
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Both groups have little regard for Jews, and both would love for Israel to simply disappear from the face of the earth.
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Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Aug. 2025
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Such decisions aren’t easy, Roth suggests, especially when a third of the tribe in question has just been wiped off the face of the earth.
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Andrew Ridker,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Along the perimeter were our tents, in a haphazard row, each one covered with blue tarp to keep out the fierce rain that sometimes seemed not to fall so much as blast horizontally across the face of the earth.
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Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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And so is Dutton Ranch, because Beth and Rip aren’t about to change the name of their ranch just because the original was wiped off the face of the earth.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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That’s the only way to live and survive, and to prove that you can’t be defeated, because Israelis will still tell you that they are surrounded by enemies who want to wipe them off the face of the earth.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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By the time my story about him was published in the November 2023 issue of Vanity Fair, Aryeh Dodelson, and all of his guises, had disappeared from the face of the earth.
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Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
3 Apr. 2026
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As the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) wrote in his magnum opus Leviathan, there would be no culture, no navigation, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no arts, no letters, no society; instead, there would be rapes, thefts, murders, and continual fear of violence.
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George G. Szpiro,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
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