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.
• Certain compounds made by senescent cells call out to the immune system to come in and destroy the cells once their work is done.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Mary looks at herself, in the middle of what ought to destroy her, and uses that moment to proclaim her sacredness.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• Finding a gift that doesn’t destroy value, gives you satisfaction, and doesn’t stimulate guilt is a lot to ask of your friends and family.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the event of conflict, Russia intended to blind the enemy and destroy it from a distance, American officials said.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Schlozman notes that the film highlights a kind of repulsive consumerism — the kind that, perhaps, leads people with too much money to buy a social media platform for billions of dollars just to destroy it.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2022
• Overwintering grounds on the California coast and Mexico have been destroyed.
  — Nathan Rott, NPR, 19 Nov. 2024
• The soft-yet-durable fabric options—microfiber, velvet, and chenille—are easy to clean and come in several color choices, providing peace of mind that shedding pets or messy kids won’t destroy your sofa.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2022
• His early battles with authorities to attempt to write on trains became folded into an epic narrative of an eternal war between the keepers of knowledge and language, and those who sought to hide and destroy it.
  — Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 31 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
• 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
• Cars all along the street completely destroyed as well.
  — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• 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 protagonist Skif goes to Chernobyl on a mission to imbue the artifact left by the anomaly that destroyed his home with residual energy that radiates throughout the Zone.
  — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024