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Example sentences for: destroy

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

They'll try to destroy anything that gets in their way, using whatever tactics are available."
The description of work inside a frozen foods warehouse, where wheezing lugs destroy their health hefting 80 pound ice bricks of fish sticks, is worthy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle . The recounting of a brutal "workout" session, in which bankers try to break a defaulting debtor down psychologically, is brilliantly drawn, as are the scenes set in a dehumanized Oakland prison.
"Steve Jobs, discussing the future of Apple and 'Operation Critical Path,' his final trump card to destroy the Microsoft empire."
In the United States, the quest to lower costs encourages corporate managers to destroy unions.
The Journal says that even with a new wavelet of improved weapons, the top brass doubts that the air attacks they're planning can destroy all of Iraq's most terrible weapons or even change Saddam's behavior.