How to Use demolish in a Sentence

demolish

verb

• The car was demolished in the accident.
• The town hopes to restore the old theater rather than have it demolished.
• The old factory was demolished to make way for a new parking lot.
• Tons of explosives were used to demolish the building.
• They demolished the other team 51–7.
• East Hartford used state grants to buy the land and demolish the old theater.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
• The city said that IDS plans to move forward with the plan to demolish and rebuild.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The first Gordon Plaza home to be demolished came down yesterday.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
• Home Edition to demolish the original home and build the family a new one in less than 96 hours.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2022
• One was a developer who planned to demolish the church to make way for a five-story condominium building.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2022
• The School District eventually agreed to demolish and rebuild the school.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• In the 1960s, the city planned to demolish it, along with several other nearby buildings, to make way for a new civic center.
  — Curbed, 14 Sep. 2022
• The league tweeted that on the day the Deauville was demolished.
  — Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• The stretch of the freeway, from near Boyle Heights and running west, might have to be demolished and replaced.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• The set was scheduled to be demolished if no buyer came through.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
• No; the cake slice should point directly at the person who is about to demolish it.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• The city would be authorized to demolish the complex if the owner fails to do so.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024
• But the crash caused damage to the bridge above it, which the governor said will need to be demolished and replaced.
  — Susan Haigh, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• The second season risks a great deal by demolishing the cramped kitchen of the Beef, where much of the series was set.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Pruitt-Igoe was demolished in 1972 and the site has since remained vacant.
  — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• On Thursday morning, a 50-ton crane will extract the lantern from the top of the tower and demolish it, Boudreau said.
  — Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• No, the cake slice (unlike the knife) should point directly at the person who is about to demolish it.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• The plans call for first demolishing the current building and then starting from scratch, thus adding cost to the project.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
• One person could demolish the bag for lunch, or two could share it with a side of leftover salmon or fill-in-the-protein.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• By early 2025, the Old Grandstand and some old barns will be demolished.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
• The town plans to build the new school alongside the current one, then demolish most of the existing building.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
• Scott-Mckinney said the porch was demolished with the dog under it.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
• To lower the value of the site, the Bears demolished the racetrack last year to turn it into vacant land.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• When soldiers return to the village to demolish a covert reconstruction (in which Abraham lent a hand) and to confiscate the villagers’ tools, Abraham and Adra film the attack.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024