destruction
Example Sentences
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“On one hand, it can be a defining aspect of our band and our lives,” Griffin said of the fire and its destruction.
From Los Angeles Times
Bundy and the mayor led a driving tour of the shattered coastline, stopping at one property where the destruction of a home revealed a sea wall below with a pre-existing sinkhole.
Soboroff, then an NBC News national correspondent, briefly broke the fourth wall while trying to describe the destruction of his former hometown, the Pacific Palisades.
From Los Angeles Times
But despite the destruction and the pervasive threat of climate change in California, dogged survivors refuse to move away.
From Barron's
A market miles away from Vesuvius may have saved the lives of many who would have otherwise been in the volcano’s path of destruction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
