destroying
Example Sentences
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The blaze came within yards of destroying properties - with 36 homes evacuated.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
"We see the destroying of these phases, and then if we wait long enough, they come back," Gedik explains.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, fire officials and insurers argued that banning all vegetation within Zone Zero was critical to reducing the risk wildfire destroying homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
There is at least one semi-recent example of the government destroying a business as punishment for corruption.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
“So those hybrids destroying your house—that bruise you supposedly got—that was just to convince me to come back?”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
