How to Use raze in a Sentence

raze

verb

• Entire blocks in the town have been razed by the flames.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Poor Clare nuns have since scrapped their plans to raze the building.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• And through the years, as the property was razed and rebuilt, the land altered too.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• By 2008 it had been razed, leaving a gaping hole in the city center.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• Sometime in the past decade, that neighborhood was razed for a taller and shinier future.
  — Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Once the area was cleaned up, developers tried to raze the row and build a tower.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Feb. 2024
• Even after their home was razed, members of the family returned to the site to camp in protest.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• In August 2016, the town of Amatrice, in neighboring Lazio, was razed to the ground.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• Over the last few decades, many of the neighborhood’s older homes have been razed and replaced with new ones.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
• Synder Hall has been razed and replaced with Tapʰòytʰaʼ Hall.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• Her daughter returned to the location of the house and sent her pictures showing that it had been razed to the ground.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• The family has been living in a corner of the shelter, their apartment razed by bombs like so much else in the Gaza Strip.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Mayor Doug Hutchens asked for the council's support to condemn and raze the building.
  — Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2022
• The landmarks commission denied the school a permit to raze the buildings.
  — The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
• Orr’s first assignment was to photograph a woman in front of her razed home.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The original mall was vacated and razed in 2020 to make way for the radical reimagining of the site.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
• In December, local fears were confirmed when a barge razed sections of coral on its way to the construction site on the reef.
  — Daniel Cole, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
• The defeat spurred James to photograph houses within the school’s site plan, knowing they might soon be razed.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• The building would then be razed and replaced with a Raising Cane’s on one half and another business on the other half.
  — Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• City workers were on stand-by, ready with axes, picks and crowbars to raze the market to the ground before anyone could protest the ruling.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2022
• Twelve hundred homes were completely razed, the office said.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Homes and schools, where hundreds of San Diegans have visited over the years, are reduced to rubble and razed buildings.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• At nearly the same time, the school district was razing the Edwards Middle School building, which had served as the high school until 1960.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• Other would-be suitors had plans to raze the structure and build something brand new, but Hood wanted to restore it.
  — Dana Covit, Vogue, 25 July 2022
• Despite a lawsuit filed by some members, the property was sold to a developer, the site rezoned and the church razed.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• Even in a war that has razed entire cities, the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine stands out.
  — Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• The property manager also confirmed to Fox News Digital that the house had been gifted to the school with plans to raze the site.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2023
• But that alliance didn't keep it from being razed by papal mercenaries, and by 1400, the monastery was all but abandoned.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
• The town’s plan is to eventually raze one or both buildings, but there is no exact timetable — and no firm plan for how many housing units would be built there.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024