destroy

How To Use destroy In A Sentence

• It's been destroyed and redone a couple of times since then.
• The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• The failure of the monsoon would destroy harvests on which 1000 million people rely.
• Shake them to bits and you are destroying more than property. Times, Sunday Times
• And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
• Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
• The virus can actually destroy those white blood cells, leaving the body wide open to attack from other infections.
• There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
• There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09