How to Use destroy in a Sentence

destroy

verb

• The bomb blast destroyed the village.
• The disease destroys the body's ability to fight off illness.
• The dog had to be destroyed since its owner could not prevent it from attacking people.
• All the files were deliberately destroyed.
• Eventually our problems with money destroyed our marriage.
• Schwing: The storm didn’t just destroy boats and motors.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2022
• Trump’s claims that they are engaged in a partisan witch hunt intended to destroy him.
  — Glenn Thrush, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Dogs are inquisitive and will probably be on the hunt for the noise-maker to destroy it.
  — Ni'kesia Pannell, Woman's Day, 8 Dec. 2022
• Homes, roads and community spaces in the path of Helene have been destroyed.
  — Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• Healthcare providers insert a probe into the affected vein, emitting laser beams that produce heat to destroy the veins.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
• The town was destroyed and its inhabitants were either killed or fled to Mexico.
  — Christopher Cann, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2024
• Seven of the Patriots’ sacks came in the second half, including two back-to-back to destroy the opening drive of the third quarter.
  — Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
• Modi will not destroy his country’s position; India is too important for its partners to simply walk away.
  — Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
• But the restructuring of Twitter won’t destroy the company.
  — Rob Wiesenthal, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• Maisie Brumble, the orphan, stows away on the ship of the famous Jacob Holland, hoping to help him destroy monsters.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• In this disturbingly apt dystopian fantasy, an infection is raging across New York City that seeks to destroy it.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2022
• Merteuil and Valmont casually destroy the lives of anyone unlucky enough to cross their paths, but their intense feelings for each other soon begin to complicate things.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• And really every crisis presents an opportunity, in my view, to either build trust and build cultural fabric both internally and with our customers, or to destroy it.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2022
• Crime syndicates, overseas competitors, and state actors may try to steal or destroy data, money, and intellectual property.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2022
• Seoul is destroyed, and maybe the rest of South Korea, too.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
• About 10% of the homeless had lived on boats that were destroyed.
  — Lane Degregory, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• Just don't call it a deal:U.S.-Iran pact: Trump destroyed it.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• One of the 10 guns had been destroyed, his lawyer Kate Mangles told the court last month.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
• The cathedral has been closed since 2019, when a large fire destroyed parts of it.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• The premise: Earth is destroyed by aliens, and a few survivors need to start over and get it right this time.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• The first item of their agenda was to defend their country and to destroy Hamas.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
• The two never spoke again, and Albin destroyed all the letters Reed had sent her over the years.
  — Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Poseidon is not a first strike weapon that will destroy U.S. cities out of the blue.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
• And even if they’re destroyed, people would rather be in their homes than be refugees.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• It can be used not just to destroy meaning but to find it, create it, share it.
  — Hasan Altaf, New York Times, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024