How to Use demolition in a Sentence

demolition

noun

• The demolitions should be complete by the end of the year.
• The old factory is scheduled for demolition next week.
• The demolition itself, shown about 24 minutes in to the video, took less than a minute.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2022
• What's next: The south garage closed to new cars over the weekend to prepare for demolition.
  — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• But the property mostly looked the same after the demolition, putting the cleanup process in the city’s hands.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
• Then after the race, the rest of the demolition and rebuilding will start.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
• Spared from demolition is a Catholic chapel built in the 1930s that might be preserved as a scenic structure.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• In return, the Bucks paid for the Bradley Center's demolition.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• In an exclusive clip, above, viewers see Berry put her demolition skills to the test with the help of Jonathan and Drew.
  — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
• The fire broke out in part of the roof of the old natatorium during demolition, the school district said.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2023
• When the house was slated for demolition in 2009, the Lunuganga Trust moved the structure and rebuilt it, piece by piece.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• The thrilling start to his Manchester City career was capped with a goal and four assists in the 6-1 demolition of Bournemouth.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• This was in the summer of 2019, when demolitions were under way.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
• On the floor are smashed pieces of green wood twisted in a way that suggests remnants left over from a home demolition.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
• The district said in May the demolition would take place in summer 2024 following the end of the school year, which was Monday.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 14 June 2024
• It is slated for demolition as part of the plan to build a much larger Terminal 1 over the next decade.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• The story begins as demolition crews are about to move in.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• Authorities still have no idea when the fire will die down, but demolition will be the next step.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The project is expected to be going out to bid soon with demolition taking place in the spring.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• The other change was in demolition, which added more funding to cover more in each ward.
  — Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
• In the exclusive clip, the former Jeopardy! host rolls up her sleeves to take out some weeds and begin the demolition process.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Many of the schools became vacant and faced demolition over the years, Finch said, adding roughly 10% of the schools are still standing today.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• The city of Detroit issued a demolition permit late last month for Adamo to take down the test cells structures.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2022
• And while some hard-core purists may wince, the demolition crew has been instructed to tear out the original brick pit.
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• The building was stripped to its beams for the demolition but had once been full of offices and conference rooms – and asbestos.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2022
• The first images of the future site of Lincoln Center show the demolition of the neighborhood.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2022
• Salvage and demolition crews were still working around the clock to clear wreckage from the collapse site.
  — Brian Witte, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• The project would bring about the demolition of the former Fry’s store, office and warehouse structures on the property.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Plans are still in the works, but managers are exploring all options and may consider at least partial demolition of the mall.
  — Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
• The team was aided in this demolition job by a suite of tools from the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025