How to Use destroyer in a Sentence

destroyer

noun

• The pamphlet describes alcohol as a destroyer of families.
• The base is the home port for 10 destroyers and 15 submarines.
  — Caleb Jones, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• 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
• To be clear: Washington was not the sole destroyer of the Pac-12’s world.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Maul, meanwhile, tears a path through the 501st forces aboard the destroyer, armed only with the Force.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
• That said, a real WWII destroyer was used for the movie.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
• 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
• The Russian Navy has commissioned just one destroyer-sized ship since the end of the Cold War.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The destroyer will head to the Persian Gulf next month for a six-month deployment.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
• Smith was in the machine shop of the USS Whitney, a destroyer tender, when the air raid began.
  — Billy Cox, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
• China on Wednesday denounced the presence of the US destroyer in the strait.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 20 May 2021
• Does the destroyer lose a radar tower that puts it out of commission for a few days?
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Poe reunites with an old friend, Zorii Bliss, who gets him the means to board Kylo Ren’s star destroyer.
  — Angry Staff Officer, Wired, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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 servicemen on the destroyer were told to abandon ship.
  — Jeff Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
• The Lincoln, along with two of its destroyers, is currently stationed in the Gulf of Oman.
  — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024
• The government has put some big boats, destroyers in place.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2020
• The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by enemy fire has been discovered.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2022
• There are also two destroyers and the Marine amphibious ready group -- which includes three ships -- in the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024