- present participle of destroy.
destroying
Example Sentences
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At Olympic and South Lake, where encampments line the street and a fire once spread into a church parking lot, destroying vehicles, there’s a concrete triangle that was heaped with trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Seizing and destroying them represents a significant penalty.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Talk of heading off AI’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others, with major U.S. indexes edging lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
