destructive
Example Sentences
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“When this largesse is undertaken at a time when the economy has little or no idle capacity, like now, the results, predictably, are destructive,” he added.
Southern California Edison sued Los Angeles County, water agencies and two companies including SoCalGas on Friday, saying their mistakes contributed to the deadly and destructive toll of last year’s Eaton wildfire.
From Los Angeles Times
Cal Fire will examine the Ventura County Fire Department’s response to a small wildfire that subsequently rekindled from the charred skeleton of a tractor — eventually growing into the destructive Mountain fire.
From Los Angeles Times
They embarked on a painfully destructive intermittent relationship, which culminated in an unhappy marriage in 1918.
I know intimately the destructive power of some of the lies we tell our children; I also understand that deception can be the only way to protect them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
