How To Use Destroyed In A Sentence

Recently—too recently for the information to be included in "Carthage Must Be Destroyed"—the site of the Battle of Baecula in 208 B.C., where Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian army under Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, was discovered in Spain. An Empire of the Mediterranean
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...
It's been destroyed and redone a couple of times since then.
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
The structure that was destroyed was a barn used for foaling mares and prepping yearlings.

Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
It was a marriage and a lifestyle that almost destroyed him.
Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
Obj. 2: Further, filiation, which is said of a man as being the son of someone, his father or his mother, depends, in a way, on him: because the very being of a relation consists _in being referred to another; _ wherefore if one of two relatives be destroyed, the other is destroyed also. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
His escape meant that he had to be figuratively executed, with the result that the people, ideas, and culture associated with him were outlawed and destroyed in his stead.
It destroyed his tenor voice and his familiar cracked, husky tones took over. Times, Sunday Times
The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid. India vs China SnapShot
I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
Following a fire in October 2000, the roofs were completely destroyed and all timber roof supports in the building were badly charred.
a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
In 1998, just before then President Suharto stepped down, unrest and arson destroyed or damaged hundreds of properties belonging to ethnic Chinese in Solo.
He begins a race against time to find the real killer - fighting his way through a tangle of lies and deceit to uncover an act of evil which has destroyed the life of more than one young person.
Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered. Times, Sunday Times
At Stamford there was a Presbyterian Church, built in 1791, and another church built for the use of all persuasions, a kind of free and common soccage church, in 1795, which was destroyed in the subsequent war. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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
The castles which had sprung up during the civil war without the licence of the king -- the 'adulterine castles,' as they were called -- and there were no less than 365 [10] of them -- were to be destroyed, and order and good government were to return. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
In short, I told them that U-13 should be destroyed and that we should not attempt to deliver Marburg by aerosol. CHAMELEON
There was an item on Dustbury last week about refineries post-Katrina, linking to Hatless in Hattiesburg's suggestion to replace refineries which were destroyed or disabled by Katrina with new refineries on military bases slated for being "realigned," and to Engine of the Future's suggestion to lift for three years the EPA regulations requiring different fuel blends for different regions, so that gasoline can be shipped wherever it's needed, avoiding artificial shortages. Oily residue - BatesLine
The dispute has destroyed unity among the workers.
There's a fundamental rule in physics that says, energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred.
The programme will explore how angry exes have destroyed lives by sharing explicit images of their previous partners. The Sun
But both were destroyed after he ended his three-year stint as a search and rescue chopper pilot last week. The Sun
Are these textiles Baroque draperies, shrouds or the curtains of a luxurious four-poster bed defiled and destroyed?
The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack.
We know from her letters that Frances destroyed the original, so that it would not injure her husband's reputation.
And bids can be destroyed or go unrecorded so that a low bid from an agent's accomplice wins, to the detriment of the seller. Times, Sunday Times
The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
The Balinese tourism industry would be destroyed and the island, now poor but developing, would be plunged into primitive semi-starvation.
That so forbearant a people as Canadians have virtually destroyed two of their three parties is convincing evidence that they realize that that policy has failed. Post-Election Prospects in Canada
The cause of a blaze which destroyed a three storey mill in Radcliffe is under investigation.
Mine action since 1999 had removed 2.2 million "emplaced" antipersonnel mines; destroyed ReliefWeb - Headlines
She destroyed my collages and stuck sharp objects through my notebooks when Susannah and me weren't around to stop her, which wasn't often, but often enough.
He wrote up a report (on a typewriter, whose ribbon he destroyed afterwards) and sent it to the US embassy in Bonn.
I suspected that as soon as he left the boatyard the chart would be similarly destroyed.
He's going to bring in a whole new batch of people rather than these political hacks who've destroyed our economy.
Thus a succession of closely connected environmental and anthropogenic events destroyed the bison.
But now, with the discovery of Sally Buckland’s body in the master bedroom closet, the house had become a crime scene, its warm domesticity destroyed by everything the term entailed. Tough Customer
That bridges and barges were being destroyed to impede their progress. Man of Honour
Kansas City's offensive line, nearing a record for most consecutive starts as a group, destroyed Minnesota's front seven during two days of scrimmages in August.
Dotty was destroyed after savaging one of the Queen's corgis at the Sandringham estate shortly before Christmas two years ago.
The earthquake destroyed several stores in the business district.
Not only had my thyroid gland been unable to release normal amounts of hormones, it had actually been totally destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
At about one second into the life of the universe, the majority of existing particles and antiparticles had been destroyed to produce photons of electromagnetic radiation.
My viperous tongue had nearly destroyed me again.
Another mysterious incident, which happened six months later, destroyed his mental balance completely.
Almost 2,500 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
The village was destroyed by a landslide.
It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
When, as the newest member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Webb praised those military men "of moral conscience" whom the Bush administration had "demeaned" and "destroyed" for their opposition to the war, Newbold was among those he had in mind. The Night of the Generals
Repairs can be acceptable provided the proportions are not destroyed.
War was declared, nests destroyed and birds hunted. Times, Sunday Times
The devastating fire, which was fanned by strong winds, destroyed approximately 850 of the 7300 hectares of pine plantations and left more than 400000 pine trees destroyed.
Lou, behind us, they have floodlit the almost destroyed remains of the front of the U.N. headquarters.
One of these fatty acids, called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), is present in high concentrations in the nerve cells in the retina, the part of the eye that gets destroyed in AMD. Looking for an excuse to barbecue this summer?
Meanwhile, there are deadly viruses to be destroyed and burning buildings from which to escape. Times, Sunday Times
They bombed granaries and rural villages, destroyed crops and irrigation systems, mined pastures and fields, destroyed herds and launched sweeps through rural areas - conscripting young men and destroying the infrastructure.
War was declared, nests destroyed and birds hunted. Times, Sunday Times
Nor, of course, can individuals, families, and communities, survive if the order of the natural world or the ecosphere is destroyed, as even the most extreme adept of the cult of selfishness will soon realise.
Jules Galdea explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance. The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World
There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
`You destroyed her, and then pirated her thoughts," Huntley said. A DEATH IN TIME
Only a ring of macrocarpas is left to mark the spot where the building was destroyed by fire.
It was exclusively a _commercial_ city, there was nothing ecclesiastical (Babylon _ecclesiastical_, the religious system had been destroyed, when all _religious_ head-ship had been summed up in Apleon). The Mark of the Beast
By now the lives of all four siblings have been damaged or destroyed by their mother's legacy. Times, Sunday Times
The gorillas' natural habitat has been gradually destroyed to make way for farmland and cash crops for sale on the global market.
The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.
It's just that, a setting with instant recognition that allows them to have all kinds of crazy but recognisable enemies that can be destroyed in 'colorful' ways. Welcome To Hell
One problem is that the calculation gives perverse results when companies have destroyed shareholder value. Times, Sunday Times
If he voted the impossible the disastrous possible happened instead — and responsibility was forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple. Police Need Intelligence Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Many smaller tremors had rattled the area in the months before the quake, which destroyed much of the historic centre of the city. Times, Sunday Times
To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas. Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
In dozens of cities, empty shells of destroyed buildings were clouded with smoke from fires that still smoldered. Burial for a King
Long time periods do not help the evolutionary theory if biochemicals are destroyed faster than they are formed.
The World Bank's damage assessment in Sri Lanka found about 90,000 homes fully or partially destroyed by last December's tsunami.
Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead.
We may have to give up saying, for instance, that a piece of paper is simply destroyed when it is burnt to ashes, or even that a human being simply ceases to exist upon undergoing a fatal accident.
If the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again.
But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
-- If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed
August 1 he French fleet is destroyed by the British in the Battle of the Nile at Abukir. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Part of the building was destroyed in the fire.
And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
However, it remains true that the evidence of witnesses is likely to have been dimmed and witnesses for Computer 2000 will not be able to refresh their memory from documents that were destroyed.
Although tabun can be destroyed by its reaction with bleaching powder, that reaction causes another chemical reaction that produces the deadly blood agent cyanogen chloride.
The town and the country around is employed in the manufacture of stockings, and which was once famous for making the finest, best, and highest-prize knit stocking in England; but that trade now is much decayed by the increase of the knitting-stocking engine or frame, which has destroyed the hand-knitting trade for fine stockings through the whole kingdom, of which I shall speak more in its place. From London to Land's End
This species has nearly died out because its habitat is being destroyed.
The readily oxidizable part of the sewage that gains access to a river is destroyed in the few first miles run.
If a horse is given a high handicap, his chances of winning can be destroyed.
Thousands of people were evacuated yesterday after a giant glass dome building at a holiday complex was destroyed by fire.
Most people would have been destroyed by the depraved acid attack on her. The Sun
Missing parts were not imitated but added in a modern way, often using the rubble bricks of destroyed buildings.
Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
However, now that the disaster has occured, and the buildings are mostly destroyed, why not re-level the city – that is, demolish all structures, remove/burn the non-cementitious debris and then add fill dirt to add 20 ft elevation everywhere? Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine
So Thomas decided to exact revenge by surreptitiously placing a vicious computer virus on Scott's machine which destroyed his hard drive.
Similarly, superconductivity can be destroyed by applying a magnetic field that exceeds some critical value.
The priory was destroyed in the Reformation but was rebuilt as a private home in 1821 and has since housed convalescing miners, injured soldiers and, after standing empty for five years, the Buddhist community.
Much of the city 's souk was destroyed last month. Times, Sunday Times
An East Indiaman was once attacked by a sword-fish with such prodigious force that its "snout" was driven completely through the bottom of the ship, which must have been destroyed by the leak had not the animal killed itself by the violence of its own exertions, and left its sword imbedded in the wood. Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
But after mechanical fishing dredges destroyed the oyster reefs early in the 20th Century, the water became increasingly turbid and oxygen deficient.
After the first one almost destroyed an Orbiter in orbit due to improper wiring that was never detected, and after NASA figured out that it was actually 10% more expensive than IUS it was retired with little fanfare. COTS Pick: A Sea Change? - NASA Watch
The beauty of its composition would be destroyed, he said, if one were to move any of the vertical or horizontal black lines just a millimetre or two.
Our army pounded at the enemy's camp and destroyed it.
The moth's habitat is being destroyed and it has nearly died out.
I'm not sure whether my resolve is strengthened or destroyed by this.
Let's first suppose the second defense line has been destroyed.
The landslides of September 19 destroyed their farms, killed their livestock, and ruined their land.
Even supposing the ‘weregild’ claim of Isildur, I think that the value of the life of a great King would not be worth more than the deed to Barad-dur, which was destroyed in the war of the Last Alliance, so the next best thing would be something like the Ring of the Witch-King. Lord of the Rings as Property Law : Law is Cool
Armoured vehicles and troop carriers were destroyed or damaged. Times, Sunday Times
Nerve cells have limited ability to regenerate if destroyed.
An unknowable, harsh and cruel society had destroyed his father for no apparent reason.
The government's policies have destroyed the social fabric.
Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
A football trophy was the only item that cane farmer Graham Jensen could salvage from the ashes of his home which was destroyed by fire on Friday night.
UV-Vis spectrum indicated that the phenyl structure and naphthyl structure of methyl orange were destroyed, methyl orange solution was degraded.
Similarly, neither the Titans nor Dionysos are destroyed or annihilated by Zeus' thunderbolt; they, as Chaos, persist.
When the yellow fever broke out in New York, and caused much alarm, nearly forty years ago, the first cases occurred in the vicinity of Trinity Church, and until destroyed by a black frost, it spread gradually in every direction from this common centre, insomuch that the "infected district" was clearly defined and marked out from day to day. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
Fashionable habits of dress -- tight lacing, which is worse to-day than ever before -- has, to a large extent, destroyed the ability of the New England and other native American women to bear healthy and well-developed children, and to properly nurse them after they are born. Personal Experience of a Physician
The basic misconception was that caloric was a conserved substance, that is it could ‘neither be created nor destroyed’.
It badly damaged the government building and destroyed several vehicles in the street outside.
Our minister of justice is getting paid very well, I'm sure, for being assigned this position, but in the meantime he can heartlessly look the other way, and allow innocent people's lives to be destroyed.
The animal is under threat of extinction in the wild as its forest habitat is destroyed to make way for agricultural land. Times, Sunday Times
It destroyed a garage, damaged trees, tore off roof tiles and sent wheelie bins flying. The Sun
It only infected and destroyed computers that had particular versions of this software running.
In the popular press, Cohen notes, seaside towns were being destroyed by warring gangs, with property getting trashed willy-nilly and pitched battles being fought in the street.
Her little liking for Royall himself he has destroyed by making, in his "lonesomeness," a single false step toward her. Some Stories of the Month
His kidney and bladder were destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity.
As well as levelling the town, the quake has also destroyed what remained of the ancient city and its sixteenth century citadel.
But even though his initial search for glory has destroyed his life, he pursues the monster with the same ardor and passion with which he created him, determined to succeed despite the physical impossibilities.
The generals around him are complicit and we know they have destroyed this immensely rich country. The Sun
More than 100 firefighters fought to control the blaze and, although they saved the entrance hall and foyers of the cinema, the auditorium and stage area were totally destroyed.
Conservation laws assure us that such quantities as angular momentum, mass-energy, and charge cannot be created or destroyed. A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung
The anti-Japanese organizations have been dissolved, and all other civil and Internet anti-Japanese movements are being destroyed and annihilated.
By now the lives of all four siblings have been damaged or destroyed by their mother's legacy. Times, Sunday Times
This destroyed the old theory that digestion was a process of fermentation. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
Why was she on this distant planet, trying to discover how the Althosian civilization was destroyed?
The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
Initial daydreams of a little finca close to a Spanish beach were destroyed by the cost of even the grimmest coastal properties.
It destroyed a garage, damaged trees, tore off roof tiles and sent wheelie bins flying. The Sun
He states, ‘Whereas Marxism called for the power of capital to be destroyed, eudemonism [the politics of happiness] calls for it to be ignored.’
And as the forward escape hatch was also destroyed, the LR5's only hope of gaining access to the submarine now is through the aft hatch.
There was a fire in the art gallery and several of the paintings were destroyed.
Many buildings are completely destroyed because of the pressure wave from the blast. Times, Sunday Times
The California Youth Authority needs to be destroyed before any productivity can occur.
After fierce fighting, C Troop was nearly destroyed.
Furthermore, the firm would have been liable if the embryos had been destroyed due to their negligence, he said.
A rare book store which was nearly destroyed in an arson attack has turned a new page in its history.
As he lifted me to my feet, he followed my gaze to the destroyed remains of the door.
Officials said that 10,000 to 15,000 buildings were either damaged or destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
In this he was partially blocked, but a dozen of the ` Frisco Reds were executed, and the group was well-nigh destroyed. Chapter 19: Transformation
In the construction of hydroelectric power station, eco - environment will be consequentially destroyed to some extent.
I don't know whether I really love you, but I know I cannot loseyou. If the earth is going to be destroyed I want to tell you that you are the only one I want to see.
Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.
Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run.
Though Romans destroyed Carthage in the Punic Wars, Roman legend traced the very origin of Rome to the Carthanginian mother-city, as shown by the story of Aeneas, who came directly across the Mediterranean from there, to found Rome. Archive 2008-04-01
Buses were destroyed and a luxury tourist hotel burnt to the ground, although no holidaymakers were injured.
One of the blasts destroyed the glass doors close to where they were hiding, sending shards flying through the air. The Sun
The aigrette, which is a sort of artificial plume, or feather, represents a hand with thirteen fingers, covered with diamonds; allusive to the thirteen ships taken and destroyed by the hero: and it's size is that of a child's hand, at the age of five or six years, when open. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
The message was clear - turn from your greed and your wickedness or the whole of the Trinity will be destroyed.
Larkin had his diaries destroyed, Hardy burnt all his personal papers, then got his second wife to put her name to the biography he had actually written himself.
Bulgaria's forests are taken care of by 3500 foresters and improving forest security, along with restoring destroyed woodlands, has been identified as the top priorities of the Government.
At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone.
Sited on a sandstone outcrop, Nottingham Castle was rebuilt as a duke's mansion in the 1670s after the original structure had been destroyed during the English Civil War.
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
I've seen people come here and be utterly destroyed because they didn't know what they wanted to do.
At the end of six months he had been gradually destroyed by secret poison in his prison in the Tower (to which for an alleged offence he had been committed) by the agency of Dr. Forman, a famous 'pharmaceutic,' under the auspices of the Earl of Rochester. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
The postwar vogue for tearing down buildings virtually destroyed the city's architecture.
If certain critical areas of the cortex—Broca's area, for instance—are destroyed by stroke or tumor, the patient will probably never recover the function once performed by the now silent circuits.
She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent.
But Kato was undeterred even though the French expedition declared the icefall destroyed and unusable.
If my body is destroyed, then I re-form at my memento mori, right? Crossed
Well, he has, and he was completely and utterly destroyed by it.
Tokyo has been destroyed twice in the twentieth century, once by earthquake, once by war.
MORE than five tons of smuggled elephant tusks worth 6.5million have been destroyed. The Sun
The two remain in touch, but friends say the close rapport they once enjoyed has been destroyed, despite their public protestations to the contrary.
People destroyed all remaining vestiges of humour.
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
Women and men of any ethnic group, any age, any social condition are seeing their innocent lives destroyed.
All wrecks which are obviously not salvable should be blown up or otherwise destroyed.
We propose such as many other doctors have, that it could be essential to digest dairy products with Probiotics (aka lactobacillus) in order to maintain balance and its own sense shield the good bacteria from being destroyed; antibiotics will destroy any type of bacteria regardless if it's good or bad. WN.com - Articles related to BT Brinjal-The new bio-terror in India
In eleven days of fighting, one-third of the Confederate Army in Georgia was destroyed. The remaining force was too weak to defend Atlanta.
these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards
In case they did not the papers would doubtless be destroyed -- and the charges would continue to be made -- the charges that the subtreasury in New York had shipped the gold to aid the revolutionary junta in making a republic of China. Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor
Nerve cells have limited ability to regenerate if destroyed.
The storm destroyed many of the blossoms and rain forest fruits that flying foxes eat, forcing the bats to alter their normally nocturnal habits.
Efficiency comes from diligence. In shortage in the play ground transportation into Si, was destroyed by the idler.
Desert terrain, boscage and fields in Normandy, destroyed urban centers, a naval facility in Norway, and other locations will be presented to the player throughout the course of the game.
Many important historical documents were destroyed when the library was bombed.
In the morning the brigade lost its communication center destroyed by a tactical Iraqi missile.
His reputation was destroyed when he was caught stealing some money.
This means the wildlife is suffering and the beautiful landscapes are being destroyed. The Sun
His main aim was a breakthrough to the coast of Belgium so that German submarine pens could be destroyed.

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