RAZE in a Sentence
Learn RAZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for RAZE, such as:
1. For which reasons he made them be razed to the ground.
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Meanings and Examples of RAZE
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raze
v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Classic Sentence:
1 Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
2 For which reasons he made them be razed to the ground.
Example Sentence:
1 Spelling is important: to raise a building is to put it up; to raze a building is to tear it down.
2 Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.