Example sentences for: destroyed

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

  • Apart from these, all his vast correspondence seems to have been destroyed, apart from a few stray items which have descended to me.

  • The town’s castle was partially destroyed by a Spanish attack in 1707, but still affords enjoyable views.

  • Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.

  • The systematic deportation of the Jewish population to concentration camps destroyed the community and after the war only a handful of the thousands forced to leave returned to their homes.

  • Much of the building here dates from the time of the Roman Empire — a devastating fire destroyed the earlier temples to Zeus and Poseidon.


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