destruction
Example Sentences
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Or the slow-motion destruction of the Kennedy Center?
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
When the agents asked specifically what he knew about the destruction of the federal office building in Oklahoma City, he said that he didn’t know anything.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
Ardiel said most of the buildings opposite the Unifil HQ had now been destroyed, describing the "scale of the destruction" in Naqoura as "truly heartbreaking".
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“My sense is that the scale of the destruction now is much worse than the Iran-Iraq war,” said Kaveh Ehsani, associate professor of international studies at DePaul University in Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s hard to focus on the remaining trees with all the destruction around them, harder still to squint into the dusk crawling in over the field.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
Vocabulary lists containing destruction
Biodiversity and Humans - Middle School and High School
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