destruct

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

By combining their results, researchers can better study neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, offering insight into why the universe did not self destruct immediately after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Lincoln Riley needs a laminated, and larger, play card that doesn’t self destruct, along with his team, in bad weather.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

"It would be wrong now to say we want to react and destruct. This is not in the team. We are not a team that wants to destruct."

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

“Because it is not possible to put the rocket into the planned orbit, we sent a destruct signal to the rocket,” minutes later at 10:51 a.m.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

"Knowing that viruses propagate from one program to another according to specific rules, it would not be unreasonable to assume that almost every micro-computer in the United States is getting ready to self destruct."

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn