annihilation

Example Sentences

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Relations between Washington and Moscow were starting to thaw, yet a staggering stockpile of almost 70,000 nuclear warheads meant the threat of annihilation lingered in the air.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Gauff summoned a ball kid and asked for three racquets to be restrung, and left the court for a toilet break after the first set annihilation.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Aside from the ongoing menace of nuclear annihilation, the biggest threat we’ve faced as a country was 9/11 when the country’s mainland was attacked by al-Qaeda.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

These are post-hope works, in other words, absorbed by death and annihilation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols