Example sentences for: destructive

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

  • "It is high time," Huffington wrote, "for some young Turks to recognize that there are moments when appeasement is more destructive than war--and to strike."

  • ' Two other good examples are Juggernaut `unstoppable destructive force: or object,' which derives from jagannath , and kedgeree `cooked dish of rice, lentils, and spices,' which derives from khicri or khicari . The familiar cot and dungaree are close to their Hindi predecessors in pronunciation, though not in spelling; they derive, respectively, from khat and dungri .

  • … It is a criminal indictment, and it rightly reads like one" (Alan Ryan, the New York Times Book Review ). No one questions that communism was immensely destructive (the book estimates that between 85 million and 100 million people were killed by Communist regimes).

  • However, unlike the study described here, in which both spatial and temporal changes in [GAG] were monitored, in the studies described above it was not possible to derive more specific spatial information because the destructive nature of the [GAG] measurements required that time course information be inferred from averages of separate animals/samples harvested at different time points.

  • It is this obsession, which far exceeds anything I have ever encountered in any scholar (and scholars and intellectuals have no little ego and no little ambition), this need to have his fingerprints everywhere, that I find curious but that I also think, ultimately for Gates, is destructive of the very end he probably wants to achieve.


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