How to Use destroyer in a Sentence

destroyer

noun

• The pamphlet describes alcohol as a destroyer of families.
• The destroyer will head to the Persian Gulf next month for a six-month deployment.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• The Navy destroyer is adorned with the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger, from the flag to steel doors.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2020
• Baby Yoda become Death, the destroyer of worlds, in Funko Pop form.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• Bomarito, like Gallagher, served on a destroyer off the Vietnamese coast early in the war.
  — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2020
• Lycorma delicatula, ruinous and beautiful, the size of your thumb and a destroyer of worlds.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Rubberneck to see the Lyndon B. Johnson, a massive Zumwalt-class destroyer, at the pier.
  — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• The Delbert Black destroyer was supposed to be commissioned last year but it was damaged when another vessel crashed into it, causing a delay.
  — FOX 35 Orlando, 25 Sep. 2020
• Covid-19, destroyer of holiday traditions, has come for the Bloomingdale’s little brown bear.
  — Amanda L Gordon, Bloomberg.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• To be clear: Washington was not the sole destroyer of the Pac-12’s world.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• Just over the weekend, the U.S. destroyer Carney shot down 14 drones.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
• One of the biggest challenges for Cooper was the destroyer tank.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• It’s one thing to be a chip destroyer, another to be a chip thief.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• This year, the list includes more fighter jets for the Air Force, a destroyer for the Navy, and helicopters for the Army.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• Besides, Squadron 11 wouldn’t be the only fleet of destroyers bound for San Diego that day.
  — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
• Sixty-four of the destroyer's 110 officers and crew died when the ship went down.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Streaming, for many in the business, is just the destroyer of movie theaters.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• For many Tunisians, Mr. Saied is the savior of the country, not the destroyer of democracy.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2021
• Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
• China on Wednesday denounced the presence of the US destroyer in the strait.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The ship is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer that was built in Seattle in 1958.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The Navy in the late 1980s moved quickly to build its then-new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer at two shipyards.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but the ship shot it down.
  — Tara Copp, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by enemy fire has been discovered.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2022
• The destroyer sank in just eight minutes, and 64 American sailors died in the attack.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• The survivors boarded a raft until a British destroyer found them.
  — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
• The destroyer shot the missile down without any injuries.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
• Across the ten main categories of major weapons systems—such as fighter aircraft or destroyers—the United States maintains 33 types of systems.
  — Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
• The Roosevelt is the flagship of a strike group that has recently included three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, $2 billion vessels that are designed to shield carriers from attacks by air, sea and land.
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024