destroy

Example Sentences

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In this scenario, debris from collisions accumulates around Earth, making it nearly impossible to launch spacecraft without them being destroyed.

From Science Daily

Resilience, too, is transmitted, as is a desire to preserve the love that wasn’t destroyed in the family conflagration.

From Los Angeles Times

The first dog sled patrols began in eastern Greenland during World War II, when they discovered and helped destroy German weather stations, denying the Germans crucial information for their U-boat campaign in the Atlantic.

From Barron's

He would build the onetime start-up into an all-powerful monopoly by ruthlessly buying—or destroying—the competition.

From Barron's

Cereulide is a toxin which is unlikely to be destroyed by cooking, or when making the infant milk, the FSA says.

From BBC