Example sentences for: destroying

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

  • You only kill the organism you intend to kill, without destroying or affecting the surrounding organisms that are necessary for health.”

  • It's also a culture that hurts the larger society--not just those on welfare--by producing crime, destroying urban life, fanning racial tension, etc.

  • Special Commission for Iraq to track Iraq's weapons development, thus destroying UNSCOM's credibility.

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • ' " An editorial argues that airstrikes have been (and will continue to be) more effective at destroying the Serbian military than most people think.


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