Example sentences for: demolished

How can you use “demolished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "the walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."

  • In a long review-essay, Wieseltier demolished West's stature as a "public intellectual," portraying him as a pretentious egomaniac, a mass of contradictions, and a superficial thinker who dresses up diluted Marxism in incomprehensible phraseology.

  • A triangle of sand — the area now bordered by the Passeig Nacional, the Avinguda d’Icària, and the beachfront Passeig Marítim — first housed dispossessed families when the Ribera district was demolished to make way for the Ciutadella fortress.

  • Most of the ugly old warehouses have been demolished along the Vieux Port at the foot of Place Jacques-Cartier.

  • By the time the Russians finally took Budapest, three-quarters of its buildings were demolished and the Hungarian death toll in the war came to about half a million.


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