demolished
Example Sentences
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I lived in Santa Monica for a while, then after the earthquake my place was demolished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ms. Margolles purchased a home in the middle of this and demolished it, here reconstructing the rubble into a rectangular minimalist monument that stretches across a large gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sepulveda said the softball program also is being looked at because of the addition of a new fence that was not authorized and is being demolished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Nearly 150 homes in an Angus town which were devastated by Storm Babet almost three years ago are to be demolished.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sometimes this was manifested as a new willingness to admit error, as when Niels Bohr visited Berkeley in April 1937 and casually demolished an Oppenheimer theory based on results from the cyclotron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
