destructive
Example Sentences
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Inflammation can heal, but if impacts are repeated it may result in a destructive cascade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
He worried he would never escape his own destructive patterns or sense of impending doom.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
We’ve had plagues and climate change before, to some degree, but until the Manhattan Project, humans weren’t really in control of that kind of existential, destructive power.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
During and after Saturday night's game, in which the Knicks defeated the Spurs in San Antonio, Texas, tens of thousands of people spilled into New York's streets, becoming increasingly destructive, the official said.
From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026
Whatever they are called, the Musket/Potato Wars proved very destructive, killing about one-quarter of the original Maori population.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing destructive
Latin Love, Vol I: struere
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George's Key to the Universe, Lessons 1–5
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