How to Use raze in a Sentence

raze

verb

• Entire blocks in the town have been razed by the flames.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• The building has been razed and the event will be held Oct. 4-6.
  — Alex Golden, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• The city has tried since 2017 to get the building razed, Marsh said.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2020
• The Poor Clare nuns have since scrapped their plans to raze the building.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• Dood said all of that was razed and the site was hydroseeded.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
• In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• And through the years, as the property was razed and rebuilt, the land altered too.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• The rest of the mall was demolished, and Sears was finally razed in 2022.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
• By 2008 it had been razed, leaving a gaping hole in the city center.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• The fire had been burning for about a week and razed 744 acres, according to Cal Fire.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Photos shared on social media showed the church razed by the storm.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• The nearly 4-acre site currently has a house and barn, which would be razed.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2024
• This is seen by many as alluding to razing the Babri mosque.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
• And the beams can be repurposed if the building is ever razed.
  — Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2024
• Sometime in the past decade, that neighborhood was razed for a taller and shinier future.
  — Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Once the area was cleaned up, developers tried to raze the row and build a tower.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Feb. 2024
• Even after their home was razed, members of the family returned to the site to camp in protest.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• In August 2016, the town of Amatrice, in neighboring Lazio, was razed to the ground.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• Over the last few decades, many of the neighborhood’s older homes have been razed and replaced with new ones.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
• Over one million hectares of land have been razed in the Sydney state of New South Wales at the start of this year's fire season alone.
  — Lauren Williams, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
• Except that the whole place was built in the early 2000s on land razed by Mussolini to build an air base.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• Synder Hall has been razed and replaced with Tapʰòytʰaʼ Hall.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• The old Villa Capri has since been razed, but his memories stand strong.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2024
• But there was no plan on how to replace the houses and small apartment buildings that were razed.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• Her daughter returned to the location of the house and sent her pictures showing that it had been razed to the ground.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• The death toll is expected to climb as rescuers sift through the rubble of dozens of buildings that have been razed.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• When the time came to take down the garage, Suffolk decided not to deal with the hassle of razing it and trucking the remains out of the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• It was announced in December the building that was once the Burger Chef will be razed.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
• Out in the street, rain had begun for real, a rain that would turn overnight into ice and raze back all the tender new green that had emerged, leave the tulip blossoms withered brown twists on the stem.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024
• The child and her father are among the handful of people whose bodies are still under the rubble of a multistory apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was razed in Friday’s air strike.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024