DESTROY in a Sentence
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276 example sentences for DESTROY, such as:
1. March on, destroy the Russian army.
2. The new law operates to destroy our advantages.
3. No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.
4. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.
5. 'We shall destroy, because we are a force,' observed Arkady.
2. The new law operates to destroy our advantages.
3. No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.
4. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.
5. 'We shall destroy, because we are a force,' observed Arkady.
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Meanings and Examples of DESTROY
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destroy
v. destroy completely; damage irreparably
v. put (an animal) to death
Classic Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1 You deny everything; or, speaking more precisely, you destroy everything.
2 'We shall destroy, because we are a force,' observed Arkady.
3 He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.
4 March on, destroy the Russian army.
5 The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery.
6 I have been and always shall be independent; but to go against his will and arouse his anger, now that he may perhaps remain with us such a short time, would destroy half my happiness.
7 Then came an order to retreat to Sventsyani and destroy any provisions they could not carry away with them.
8 Mr. Klyucharev has been treated in the same way, and so have others who on the plea of building up the temple of Solomon have tried to destroy the temple of their fatherland.
9 No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.
10 The victories of the French at Jena and Auerstadt destroy the independent existence of Prussia.
11 This campaign consisted in a flight of the French during which they did all they could to destroy themselves.
12 So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question.
13 That assumption would destroy the possibility of the existence of laws, that is, of any science whatever.
14 At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him.
15 In the car going home to the red villa in the cornfields, she would destroy it, as a thrush pecks the wings off a butterfly.
Example Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1 The new law operates to destroy our advantages.
2 The next step, to destroy all remaining laboratory samples of the virus was promised, but never taken.
3 If you attempt to hijack or otherwise destroy this aircraft, we encourage your fellow passengers to remove you from your seat and beat you until you are dead.
4 In many science fiction films, alien invaders from outer space plan to destroy all terrestrial life.
5 The armament of any of the great power can destroy civilization.
6 So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
7 The former president tried to destroy an audio tape that could be used to to incriminate him.
8 Batman was baffled: he could think of no way to hinder the Joker's infernal scheme to destroy the city.
9 Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor.
10 I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.
11 Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely.
12 In his final days, Hitler revealed himself a power-mad nihilist, ready to annihilate all of Western Europe, even to destroy Germany itself.
13 He is a coward and a very evil man who works in stealth to destroy anyone who disagrees with him.
14 These could destroy the habitats of endangered species on the river, including the Yangtze River dolphin, of which only a few dozen remain.
15 They have used a genetically engineered form of the common cold virus to destroy human brain tumor cells that had been injected into mice.