Example sentences for: destroying

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

  • The president's accuser, Paula Jones, has allowed herself to become a weapon in a much larger and well-known political battle--that of right-wingers bent on destroying Clinton's reputation and career.

  • In retaliation for this unsuccessful attempt to expel Westerners from Beijing, military forces representing the eight foreign nations resident in the capital went on a rampage, destroying the national library and even setting fire to the Summer Palace.

  • Only after a separate Iraqi battery fired on allied patrol planes on Feb. 2 did the United States drop a dozen bombs on the anti-ship launchers, destroying two of them.

  • It's not quite as bad as she thought it was, but since she spent the rest of her life buying up any copy she found and destroying it and never mentioned it in any lists of her work, I think it ought to rest in peace, don't you?

  • What happens when the economic interests that are destroying American society are pretending to reconstitute it right next door?


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