destroy
Example Sentences
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Many businesses have been destroyed in the fire.
From BBC
These delicate textures are rarely preserved in younger rocks because animals often disturb and destroy them.
From Science Daily
In Kuwait, the oil-rich monarchy whose industry was all but destroyed when Iraq invaded in 1990, officials suddenly had the problem of what to do with all their oil.
“There is clearly a race against time,” Mr. Jones says, to destroy launchers as fast as possible and relieve pressure on the interceptor pile.
Gyllenhaal has flipped the focus from Frankenstein’s Monster to his female companion, who is destroyed in Shelley’s book before she’s ever given life.
From Salon
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