- present participle of destroy.
destroying
Example Sentences
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At Olympic and South Lake, where encampments line the street and a fire once spread into a church parking lot, destroying vehicles, there’s a concrete triangle that was heaped with trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Seizing and destroying them represents a significant penalty.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity did little to sap demand for hyperscaler stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Maybe I should’ve explained that I was the reigning Short-Circuit Scientist, destroying anything and everything electric-powered.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
