English example sentences with "destroyed"

Learn how to use destroyed in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

With the bridge destroyed, there was nothing to do but swim.

Low-lying lands will flood. This means that people will be left homeless and their crops will be destroyed by the salt water.

The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.

The garden was destroyed after the rain.

A row of old houses is being destroyed to make way for new flats.

Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.

Most houses were destroyed to pieces.

The storm destroyed the whole town.

They have demanded that all copies of the book be destroyed.

The fire, driven by an east wind, destroyed the center of the city.

The town was destroyed during the war.

The city was destroyed by fire.

The typhoon destroyed many houses.

Three-fourths of the town was destroyed by the typhoon.

That destroyed all his dreams.

Only part of the building has been destroyed by the earthquake.

The fire destroyed the tall building.

The house was destroyed by fire.

The house was altogether destroyed by the fire.

The devil destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The building was totally destroyed by the earthquake.

The building was completely destroyed.

And in many countries, where the animals are already under pressure because their homes are being destroyed by agriculture, things can get even worse.

Rev. King's house was destroyed by a bomb. But still, the buses went on empty.

Crows all but destroyed the farmer's field of corn.

Not a few houses were destroyed by the typhoon.

The white building was destroyed by the earthquake.

The atomic bomb destroyed the entire city of Hiroshima.

The accident destroyed all his hopes for success.

Not a few houses were destroyed in the typhoon.

The whole world could be destroyed by an atomic war.

More than half of my books were destroyed by the fire last night.

Many cities were destroyed by bombs.

Many animals have been destroyed by men.

It was in the 1920s that a big earthquake destroyed Tokyo.

This road was partly destroyed in consequence of the earthquake.

The road was partly destroyed in consequence of the earthquake.

All of the town was destroyed by a fire.

The town was destroyed by the flood after the storm.

Who destroyed the garden?

It's a tragedy that rainforests are being destroyed for the sake of profits.

He was ignorant of the fact that the town had been destroyed.

They had their houses destroyed by a strong earthquake.

They destroyed the native civilization.

The troop was altogether destroyed.

Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.

The tornado destroyed the whole village.

We've destroyed the enemy flagship!

The neighbouring house was destroyed, but mine survived just a bit of cost for repair.

But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

This vending machine was destroyed by hoodlums last night.

A portion of the island was destroyed by the massive waves.

The construction of the dam created an artificial lake that destroyed a whole ecosystem.

A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.

Ten million hectares of ancient forest are being cleared or destroyed every year. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Tom destroyed his marriage by lying to his wife.

The car was destroyed in the accident.

An earthquake destroyed the building.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

There are many houses destroyed by the earthquake.

They destroyed stores and factories.

The Japanese destroyed Pearl Harbor.

Cold weather and insects destroyed their crops.

Santa Ana's army was destroyed.

Almost all of Atlanta was destroyed.

This church was destroyed by cannon fire.

Old customs are gradually being destroyed.

One thousand two hundred and fifty-six soldiers destroyed the fortress of Alamut.

Moreover, I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.

Mary traveled into the future and found that climate change had destroyed all life on Earth.

Tom's house was destroyed by a hurricane.

Tom's house was destroyed by a tornado.

The Mongols invaded Baghdad in 1258 and destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate.

When their home star went nova, their civilization was destroyed.

Carthage must be destroyed.

The cleaner thought that she was only doing her job - in actual fact, she destroyed a modern work of art worth millions. Now the museum is struggling with how to handle the crisis.

The famous hotel was practically destroyed by a large fire.

You destroyed my BMW!

The Aztec Empire wasn't destroyed by the Spanish. It was the fall of communism that did it.

Scientists say more than half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been destroyed in the past 30 years.

Atlantis was destroyed.

The enemy destroyed many of our ships.

Two of the enemy ships have been destroyed.

The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.

A hurricane destroyed Tom's house.

When all was said and done, the world was not destroyed on December 21, 2012.

They survived, even though the building was destroyed.

We'll be destroyed.

I destroyed everything.

It was destroyed.

The bomb destroyed three houses.

The fire destroyed three houses.

The entire town was destroyed in a fire.

Tom destroyed the children's sand castle.

How many houses were destroyed in Iraq?

The government is being destroyed!

The concrete layer of the nuclear reactor's shielding will be destroyed using controlled explosions.

It's still unclear to many, especially to those who half destroyed it and surrendered it to Iran, whether Iraq should be pronounced e-rack or aye-rack. But, after all, is it necessary to know how to pronounce a country's name before whacking it ?

Flooding has destroyed six thousand hectares of cropland.

In Sydney recently, about 50 cars parked in a parking lot were destroyed as a result of a grass fire caused by someone throwing a cigarette butt out of a car window.

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