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.
• The team also demolished the former race track stadium to lower its taxes, leaving the site vacant.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
• Developers will demolish the spot along with the entire Luzon Plaza strip mall.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• The building has not been used since the shooting, and a new freshman building put in place, but the school district cannot demolish the old building until prosecutors no longer need it.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
• Upon the purchase of the property last year, there were reports that the Oracle founder was planning to demolish the current home and rebuild.
  — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• In some towns, synagogues were demolished or fell into disrepair, their histories largely unrecorded.
  — Austin Reid, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• But even Trump is unlikely to be able to demolish the complicated lattice of global deals in his four years as U.S. president.
  — Byjames Morris, Fortune Europe, 26 Nov. 2024
• The Broward County school district plans to demolish it whenever the prosecutors approve.
  — Terry Spencer, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
• The Broward County school district plans to demolish it whenever prosecutors approve.
  — CBS News, 5 Aug. 2022
• The league tweeted that on the day the Deauville was demolished.
  — Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• The city said that IDS plans to move forward with the plan to demolish and rebuild.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• 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
• East Hartford used state grants to buy the land and demolish the old theater.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024