How to use "rub" in a sentence

He was afraid about anti-Jewish demonstrations, so he ordered his men to rub out the message

Whoever it was, he wanted to rub her face in the tragedy that she was trying so hard to forget.

"Listen," she said excitedly, "we thought someone was sending me messages about Danny being alive just to rub my face in the fact that he was actually dead - or to let me know, in a roundabout fashion, that the way he died wasn't anything like what I'd been told