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.
• 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
• Schwing: The storm didn’t just destroy boats and motors.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The dynamic duo of Hill and Waddle played well but didn’t destroy the Browns.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• 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
• That would destroy me to leave my children at this moment in their lives.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
• The freeze damaged and destroyed a number of the early flowers.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 5 June 2023
• The fourth device was located at the marsh and destroyed by the Stamford bomb squad.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2025
• The Eaton fire happened on Jan. 7 and Allen’s house was destroyed, along with that of his assistant.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
• Cars all along the street completely destroyed as well.
  — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The aim, in other words, was to allow the Russians to advance and then destroy their columns in the front and supply lines in the rear.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• Scores of businesses were damaged, and the town’s Little League field and a new skate park were destroyed.
  — Lisa Rathke, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
• The stakes are high in this installment, when the Guardians embark on a mission that could destroy their team-up.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
• And whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
• The accident destroyed a large section of the bridge, killing a total of 35 people.
  — Zachary Folk, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Amid their fighting, the pair knock over a large fuel tank, and Kreese later takes his cigar and throws it into the fuel, setting off an explosion that destroys the boat and presumably kills them both.
  — Arabella Hau, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025