demolisher

Example Sentences

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It is five-and-a-half years since diggers and demolishers started doing their thing to build HS2.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023

To leverage and augment such incredible resources, on-site teachers must become life coaches, role models, facilitators, therapists, motivators, demolishers of obstacles and openers of eyes.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019

In proportion as the work of the demolishers seemed to advance, the mother mechanically retreated, and pressed the young girl closer and closer to the wall.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Herein appears the defect of the great medieval structure; even to-day, after so many openings, effected by modern demolishers, most of the cathedrals are visible only on paper.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

I was considering that the demolishers of this place—those English armies, those followers of John Knox—were actuated by the highest and most laudable of motives.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch