How to Use annihilate in a Sentence

annihilate

verb

• He annihilated his opponent in the last election.
• The enemy troops were annihilated.
• Just as the robot is about to annihilate the boy, the titular hero flys in saves the day.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• The love winging around the room scares her with its annihilating force.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• To put that in context, each would be enough to annihilate anything in one to two city blocks.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Black holes are massive beasts that annihilate anything that dares to cross them.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2019
• At the sound of the sixth trumpet, two hundred million horsemen annihilate a third of mankind.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Or the leaders may clash and revert to threats to annihilate each other’s country.
  — Fortune, 14 Mar. 2018
• At last, fate affords Tár the chance to annihilate herself in the service of her art.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• What kind of school-annihilating hardware might be available by the time this virus came full-blown?
  — Mark Jacobson, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• The photon pair cannot annihilate each other again and pay back their energy to the vacuum that surrounds the black hole.
  — Christoph Adami, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
• Keep from being annihilated inside and there was a way for Kansas to do it.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
• Standout garnish: The corn had a nice kick, and wasn’t too annihilated by the steam from the crawfish.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 17 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps the urge to annihilate the spotted lanternfly is overkill.
  — Abigail Gruskin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• The mobile home was annihilated, and the Hawkins’ bodies were found a few hundred feet away from where the home once stood.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• The Nazis wanted to erase the Jews and annihilate their civilization.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• For over a century, weapons have been lethal enough that armies who mass exposed forces in the open have suffered annihilating loss rates.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Bay tells the (fake) story of a seaside town that was annihilated by a parasite and the coverup that followed.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 June 2023
• Pro-government planes dropped leaflets warning those who did not leave that they would be annihilated.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2017
• Midnight on the clock marks the symbolic moment when humankind could annihilate itself.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• Netanyahu raised the issue of Iran’s threat to annihilate Israel.
  — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• The Patriots’ defense with the help of Judon will annihilate.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• Everything was done to annihilate our culture and people.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Getting too fancy or self-conscious would annihilate the joy.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• Strikes were brutally crushed and labor unions all but annihilated.
  — Kevin Baker, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
• This is the story of a boxer who, even when considered next to the world’s most awesome power punchers, had a hook that packed an annihilating force.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• But how could gamma rays produced by annihilating dark matter in the core avoid scattering before escaping the sun?
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2019
• Feign weakness then annihilate everyone with the hidden missile inside your fake cast.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• That little thing that seems so innocent, I could be annihilated for.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024