DESTROY in a Sentence

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276 example sentences for DESTROY, such as:

1. Force can never destroy right.
2. March on, destroy the Russian army.
3. Rules and modesty destroy genius and art.
4. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
5. The antibodies glom onto the virus and destroy it.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESTROY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
destroy
 v.  damage irreparably
 v.  put something to death
Classic Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1  You deny everything; or, speaking more precisely, you destroy everything.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  'We shall destroy, because we are a force,' observed Arkady.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
4  March on, destroy the Russian army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
5  The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
6  I have been and always shall be independent; but to go against his will and arouse his anger, now that he may perhaps remain with us such a short time, would destroy half my happiness.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
7  Then came an order to retreat to Sventsyani and destroy any provisions they could not carry away with them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
8  Mr. Klyucharev has been treated in the same way, and so have others who on the plea of building up the temple of Solomon have tried to destroy the temple of their fatherland.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
9  No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
10  The victories of the French at Jena and Auerstadt destroy the independent existence of Prussia.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
11  This campaign consisted in a flight of the French during which they did all they could to destroy themselves.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
12  So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
13  That assumption would destroy the possibility of the existence of laws, that is, of any science whatever.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XI
14  At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  In the car going home to the red villa in the cornfields, she would destroy it, as a thrush pecks the wings off a butterfly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
16  What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe.
17  To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
18  Rules and modesty destroy genius and art.
19  If we continue to destroy the countryside many more animals will become extinct.
20  Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
21  Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first made mad.
22  Who the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
23  Environmentalists say that the road will destroy the remains of the world's first commercial railway.
24  Criticizing will only destroy a relationship and create feelings of failure.
25  And when you are gone, I will destroy everything you ever loved.
26  Force can never destroy right.
27  Our mission is to seek out the enemy and destroy them.
28  Thomas had a mission, to destroy the missile and prevent the shapechanger from carrying out his criminal activities.
29  Critics claim the building would destroy the flavor of the neighborhood.
30  The antibodies glom onto the virus and destroy it.