How to Use destructive in a Sentence

destructive

adjective

• The school is concerned about the destructive behavior of a few students.
• It was one of the most destructive storms in recent memory.
• She argued that the law was destructive of personal liberties.
• The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2022
• The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
• The most destructive to me are my tendency to live in the past and to hold grudges.
  — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2022
• And a lot of times the snap judgments were very destructive.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 6 May 2022
• And that drought that came on the heels of some of the most destructive floods Europe has ever seen.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• The whole, nasty cocktail, destructive of soul, mind, and body.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Mar. 2023
• Over roughly two hours, the horses wove a destructive path across some 6 miles of the city.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 Apr. 2024
• The film, written with Jon Spaihts, picks up hours after the destructive events of the first film.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some of the sideshows, as they are also called, have been deadly and destructive.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
• The trend is destructive, as a pair of events this week illustrate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
• As a result, the legacy in many ways is very destructive.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• Their lives were ripped apart in one of the deadliest and most destructive wars of the 21st century.
  — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The men are dopey and destructive; the women clever and thwarted, with all the good lines and the truly depressing fates.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The spilling of the tea propelled the dissolution of the bonds between Britain and her colonies, and led to seven years of destructive war.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• As the eye moved inland, destructive winds shredded signs and rooftops.
  — Daniel Kozin, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
• Given the history of the destructive powers of wildfires, what took place in The Dalles the past two days could have been worse.
  — Thallman, oregonlive, 15 June 2023
• That is a marked contrast from some destructive fires to hit the region in recent years.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
• The size and strength of the hurricane and its wind fields, especially the inner core with the most destructive winds.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• To make matters worse, the dog has also been destructive.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
• Even more destructive are surface waves, which move at about the same speed as S-waves or maybe a bit slower.
  — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
• These destructive pests can lay waste to an entire patch of squash in short order.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2025
• This is the destructive game that Trump is playing, and his lawyers seem happy (or at least willing) to go along with it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• He was revealed as being two-faced and very destructive and cocky.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
• This is tantamount to a destructive race to the bottom.
  — Kotter, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Beijing knows a full-scale invasion would risk direct war with the U.S., a destructive gamble for China’s already wobbly economy at a time when Trump has added 145% tariffs to its burdens.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 26 Apr. 2025
• Here’s another destructive attempt to tamper with a longstanding federal law.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025