How to Use annihilate in a Sentence

annihilate

verb
Definition of annihilatenext
Synonyms for annihilatenext
  • He annihilated his opponent in the last election.
  • The enemy troops were annihilated.
  • Just as the robot is about to annihilate the boy, the titular hero flys in saves the day.
    — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
  • At last, fate affords Tár the chance to annihilate herself in the service of her art.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • To put that in context, each would be enough to annihilate anything in one to two city blocks.
    — chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The love winging around the room scares her with its annihilating force.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • The Tigers were annihilated by the Rays, 8-0, in the first of three games in the series at Comerica Park.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Standout garnish: The corn had a nice kick, and wasn’t too annihilated by the steam from the crawfish.
    — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The mobile home was annihilated, and the Hawkins’ bodies were found a few hundred feet away from where the home once stood.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • By the next day, the booming town of Peshtigo had been annihilated and up to 2,500 people were dead.
    — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, this is the sort of view that, taken to its logical end, can annihilate the meaning of any event.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The Bay tells the (fake) story of a seaside town that was annihilated by a parasite and the coverup that followed.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 June 2023
  • At the sound of the sixth trumpet, two hundred million horsemen annihilate a third of mankind.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Boston trimmed to lead to 6-3 in the sixth when J.D. Martinez annihilated a pitch from Kikuchi over the wall in center for a solo homer.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • What kind of school-annihilating hardware might be available by the time this virus came full-blown?
    — Mark Jacobson, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • The Patriots’ defense with the help of Judon will annihilate.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Black holes are massive beasts that annihilate anything that dares to cross them.
    — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2019
  • The Nazis wanted to erase the Jews and annihilate their civilization.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The one in which the Colts were annihilated by a Jaguars team that had lost six of its past seven games by an average margin of 21.5 points.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Or the leaders may clash and revert to threats to annihilate each other’s country.
    — Fortune, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Bryce Harper stepped to the plate with the Phillies trailing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth and absolutely annihilated a walk-off grand slam.
    — Emily Caron, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • His 12th was annihilated by Ramirez, an outside four-seamer pulled to the right-center field seats for a two-run homer.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
  • For years, the actress, has been known to annihilate the red carpet in either sultry or glamorous looks.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 July 2024
  • Netanyahu raised the issue of Iran’s threat to annihilate Israel.
    — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Keep from being annihilated inside and there was a way for Kansas to do it.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Did Cologne annihilate the meaning of the abductions and the confiscations and the shootings and the gassings and the crematories?
    — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The photon pair cannot annihilate each other again and pay back their energy to the vacuum that surrounds the black hole.
    — Christoph Adami, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • As a result, she's swept into the high-stakes political workings of the different High Lords of the land, falls in love, and works to stop a war that could annihilate all her fellow humans.
    — EW.com, 26 July 2024
  • In recent months Tanner has been annihilating many of her press appearances.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Sep. 2024

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