- present participle of destroy.
destroying
Example Sentences
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Bass has been dogged by high unfavorable ratings since the Palisades fire, which broke out in January 2025 while she was out of the country, destroying thousands of homes and leaving 12 dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Botswana has more than 130,000 elephants and communities living alongside them have long complained about animals destroying crops, damaging property and sometimes killing people.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ron Bath was flying his RF-4 Phantom military jet at nearly 700 miles an hour over the Nevada desert when it smashed into a bird, destroying one of the engines and part of the wing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She thought on what Babulya had said when they had read the Torah together, about destroying one life and destroying the entire world.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack