destroy

Example Sentences

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It was just a place for them to be wild and play and make art where I didn’t have to destroy my house every day.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

"Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

As he was dying two years later, in 1898, he came to see the book as “obscene” and begged his publishers, “by all that is holy,” to destroy every copy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

How can doctors destroy cancer cells without harming healthy tissue?

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

“But he’ll probably try to destroy me with, like, a laser or something!”

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness