destroy

Example Sentences

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"Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

As he was dying two years later, in 1898, he came to see the book as “obscene” and begged his publishers, “by all that is holy,” to destroy every copy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Scientists already knew that quasars can destroy this gas within their own galaxies, effectively shutting down local star formation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

You can’t destroy an industry of incredible value if the product doesn’t do something incredibly valuable.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis