How to Use annihilation in a Sentence

annihilation

noun

• In this week’s The Last of Us, Ellie reaches the sixth stage of grief: annihilation.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 Apr. 2025
• The surfer tells the quad squad that their planet has been marked by alien powers for annihilation.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
• The Suns bounced back from that one-point upset loss to Houston with a complete annihilation of the Spurs.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• The stakes couldn’t get higher as Niko and her crew witness the annihilation of a planet.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021
• Far in the future, past the death of the Sun and the annihilation of the Earth, everything will simply evaporate.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Its charter calls for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• For a star around eight to 12 times the sun's mass, there is another avenue to annihilation.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Mystique was pretending to be an X-Man in order to lay the blame on them and bring about the annihilation of all mutants.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
• That is the kind of thing that can trigger wars that could result in the annihilation of much of humanity.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• The two countries’ brinkmanship brought the world to the edge of nuclear annihilation.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
• But are good manners enough to save Bonnet and his crew from annihilation by British forces?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
• Much of the lore about the chamber’s propensity for mind-annihilation centers on the concept of blood sounds.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Some have heard in the end of Brahms’s Fourth grimness and destruction, a kind of gorgeous annihilation.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Now the doomsday weapons had been, if not abolished, at least holstered, and the passage of time could mean progress, rather than a countdown to annihilation.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
• During the next five years, a much vaster idea began to take hold in the minds of the movement’s leaders: the threat of humanity’s annihilation.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• The other is the Nazi annihilation of Germans of African descent.
  — Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The second assertion was that the world is closer to annihilation than at any time in its history, which is wrong on the facts.
  — Marc Champion, Mercury News, 13 June 2025
• Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has ticked away the minutes toward—or away from—annihilation.
  — WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• The world faced and walked back from the brink of nuclear annihilation without avoiding the very thing the crisis was designed to prevent.
  — Jon Wolfsthal, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
• Because of this, the research team believes that the source causing the annihilation weighs less than WIMPs and is slower than cosmic rays.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
• Dread of nuclear annihilation hung over the globe throughout the Cold War.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• The soldiers were surrounded by a massive Russian force and on the verge of annihilation.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The question is, as more companies embrace this new era, what jobs are most at risk of annihilation?
  — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• How could a person deal with a constant sense of annihilation?
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The country is still reeling from the rape, mutilation, and murder of more than 1,000 civilians by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of the state of Israel and its Jews.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• That annihilation of the Panthers marked only the second time since 2018 that a receiver has scored three touchdowns on go routes in one game.
  — Joey Knight, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2023
• But the phrase has also been adopted over the years by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of Israel, taking on a darker meaning that has long shaped the way in which it is received.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Self annihilation fueled with medicating left me a shell, and the world on mute.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• These dark chapters oblige Europeans to prevent the annihilation of Israel, the safe haven that Jews sought after the Holocaust.
  — Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
• Jiang imagined Trump threatening Tehran with annihilation if American forces were not allowed to leave safely.
  — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025