How to Use destroy in a Sentence
destroy
verb
- The bomb blast destroyed the village.
- The disease destroys the body's ability to fight off illness.
- The dog had to be destroyed since its owner could not prevent it from attacking people.
- All the files were deliberately destroyed.
- Eventually our problems with money destroyed our marriage.
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Poseidon is not a first strike weapon that will destroy U.S. cities out of the blue.
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Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
17 Jan. 2023
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That school was also destroyed in a series of massive explosions.
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Sally Abou Aljoud,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Nov. 2024
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The sheriff notes two impediments to success on Sunday, the first being the fire that destroyed the home.
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Veronica Fulton,
NBC News,
5 Nov. 2024
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Dual Patriots-Brady fans can destroy their Bucs jerseys.
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Beth Teitell,
BostonGlobe.com,
1 Feb. 2023
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In addition, Gusman did not obtain permission to destroy records for at least 10 years.
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Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
27 Jan. 2023
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Two Irwin dot paintings were physically attacked and destroyed.
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Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Oct. 2024
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As Pinkerton’s intentions are revealed, Butterfly’s dreams are destroyed in ways of no return.
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Kathryn Gregory,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Nov. 2024
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Prejudice is always seeking out new victims to demonise, to denounce and, ultimately, to destroy.
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Town & Country,
27 Jan. 2023
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This layer has been fragile for decades as the result of chemicals used as refrigerants and propellants that destroy ozone, a compound made of three oxygen atoms.
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Eric Niiler,
WSJ,
9 Jan. 2023
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The hulking vehicles carry a crew of three and are armed with an autocannon, a machine gun, and a missile system that can destroy armored targets, such as tanks, from more than two miles away.
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Time,
5 Jan. 2023
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Until its transformation into X, the platform was regarded by some as a once-vibrant place on the internet that Musk utterly destroyed.
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Vox Staff,
Vox,
6 Nov. 2024
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Seoul is destroyed, and maybe the rest of South Korea, too.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2023
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About 10% of the homeless had lived on boats that were destroyed.
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Lane Degregory,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2023
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Just don't call it a deal:U.S.-Iran pact: Trump destroyed it.
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Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
18 Apr. 2024
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One of the 10 guns had been destroyed, his lawyer Kate Mangles told the court last month.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 Dec. 2023
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The cathedral has been closed since 2019, when a large fire destroyed parts of it.
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Julia Binswanger,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Sep. 2024
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The premise: Earth is destroyed by aliens, and a few survivors need to start over and get it right this time.
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Matthew Gilbert,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 May 2023
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The first item of their agenda was to defend their country and to destroy Hamas.
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2023
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The two never spoke again, and Albin destroyed all the letters Reed had sent her over the years.
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Will Hermes,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2023
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And even if they’re destroyed, people would rather be in their homes than be refugees.
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IEEE Spectrum,
29 May 2024
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It can be used not just to destroy meaning but to find it, create it, share it.
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Hasan Altaf,
New York Times,
16 May 2023
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That would destroy me to leave my children at this moment in their lives.
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Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
18 Dec. 2023
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The freeze damaged and destroyed a number of the early flowers.
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Devon M. Sayers,
CNN,
5 June 2023
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Cars all along the street completely destroyed as well.
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ABC News,
8 Oct. 2023
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Scores of businesses were damaged, and the town’s Little League field and a new skate park were destroyed.
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Lisa Rathke,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 July 2023
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