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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It was announced in December the building that was once the Burger Chef will be razed.
    The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The family has been living in a corner of the shelter, their apartment razed by bombs like so much else in the Gaza Strip.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • It was later razed, and today, a QuikTrip gas station stands in its place.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2024
  • In Thantlang, The Post found that over the course of three months, the military returned multiple times to raze most of the buildings along the town’s main road.
    Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Mayor Doug Hutchens asked for the council's support to condemn and raze the building.
    Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The city has already issued a permit to raze the buildings, according to the letter.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The cost to raze the structure is estimated at $1.3 million.
    Beth Mlady, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The landmarks commission denied the school a permit to raze the buildings.
    The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Collins wasn’t sure whether to expect Russians to raze Ukrainian cities or surround them.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022

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