- present participle of destroy.
destroying
Example Sentences
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Around 2,000 had been evacuated from nearby villages as the fire ripped through the surrounding hills, damaging homes and destroying cars in the early hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Another possibility is that it was heated later, destroying clay minerals that had once been present.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the summer of 2016, the Soberanes fire burned more than 130,000 acres north of Big Sur, destroying dozens of homes and forcing evacuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Spokane fire is the largest of three burning around the north-western US state's second-most-populous city, forcing more than 60,000 people to evacuate and destroying more than 700 buildings.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“So those hybrids destroying your house—that bruise you supposedly got—that was just to convince me to come back?”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
