demolish

Example Sentences

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Banks says carrying out work like in Wapping is rather different to how archaeology is often portrayed on TV, with digs even occurring in a building's basement while the floors above it are being demolished.

From BBC

The coastline here is rapidly disappearing due to erosion, with four homes having been demolished this winter alone.

From BBC

When one of the estimated 51 Luboml Jews to survive the Holocaust returned to the demolished town after the war, Ms. Ziegelman writes, he encountered only a void, “like in Genesis.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"My house has been demolished. My shop has been demolished. Even the school where I teach has been demolished."

From Barron's

In the nearby area of Jabalia, Israeli troops demolished a series of school buildings that were around 150m inside the mapped line.

From BBC