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 building has been razed and the event will be held Oct. 4-6.
  — Alex Golden, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• The city has tried since 2017 to get the building razed, Marsh said.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2020
• The kids then have the home razed and build condos with a Starbucks.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
• The Poor Clare nuns have since scrapped their plans to raze the building.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• As of 2023, the houses had been razed but nothing had been built on the land.
  — Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
• It is not lost on me that wildfires have razed much of the city this past week.
  — Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
• Dood said all of that was razed and the site was hydroseeded.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
• The people of Harsud are razing their town to the ground.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
• In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• The delays have come once the Bost Building was razed to make room for the hotel.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 22 Aug. 2019
• Eighteen months have passed since the overgrowth on the massive site was razed to the ground.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018
• The building there — the site of a former Pizza Hut – will be razed.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2019
• The restaurant has been open for 53 years and will be razed to make room for Jackson's Car Wash.
  — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 11 June 2019
• And through the years, as the property was razed and rebuilt, the land altered too.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the weeks after the battle, Constantine ordered the New Fort razed and gave the land to the Church.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
• In March 2012, the family handed control of the land back to the city and the building was razed.
  — Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
• The rest of the mall was demolished, and Sears was finally razed in 2022.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
• 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
• The fire had been burning for about a week and razed 744 acres, according to Cal Fire.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Photos shared on social media showed the church razed by the storm.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• The school has since been razed, but the construction disturbed the soil beneath it.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• At the age of 9, Ruth witnessed massacres, had her home razed, and lived as a fugitive.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Vikings razed most of the forests a thousand years ago—so all wood has to be imported.
  — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
• Most homes this old would have been razed to make way for new construction.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The nearly 4-acre site currently has a house and barn, which would be razed.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2024
• The city and neighborhood activists want to raze the block and build a park, called Cab Calloway Square.
  — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2019
• To Bigelow, the scene recalled an image from a 1961 fire that razed Bel Air, about five miles from the Palisades.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
• This is seen by many as alluding to razing the Babri mosque.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
• From the perspective of city finances, the success of razing a property can be assessed in two ways.
  — Camila Alvayay Torrejon, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025