destroyed

Example Sentences

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He left Palisades after the fires of January 2025 shut down his school and destroyed neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Before it was destroyed, Mariupol’s theater served as a bomb shelter whose denizens cut across social, economic and cultural classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Since the new excavation, mining activity has destroyed the site, making the recovered data especially valuable.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

When he later rang the police to ask about the interview on 13 April 2021, he was informed that the notes had been destroyed.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

He returned to Germany, but by then his parents were dead, and everything they owned had been destroyed in the bombings.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti