How to Use destroyer in a Sentence

destroyer

noun

• The pamphlet describes alcohol as a destroyer of families.
• To be clear: Washington was not the sole destroyer of the Pac-12’s world.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• Just over the weekend, the U.S. destroyer Carney shot down 14 drones.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
• One of the biggest challenges for Cooper was the destroyer tank.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• Besides, Squadron 11 wouldn’t be the only fleet of destroyers bound for San Diego that day.
  — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
• Sixty-four of the destroyer's 110 officers and crew died when the ship went down.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Streaming, for many in the business, is just the destroyer of movie theaters.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
• The ship is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer that was built in Seattle in 1958.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but the ship shot it down.
  — Tara Copp, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by enemy fire has been discovered.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2022
• The survivors boarded a raft until a British destroyer found them.
  — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
• The destroyer shot the missile down without any injuries.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The groundhogs are the most effective destroyers of a garden.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Addiction is a nasty thing, a destroyer of souls, bodies, and hopes.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2023
• That’s a little on the light side for a destroyer-sized ship, as the most recent Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are built with 96 Mk.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2022
• Such vessels as the destroyers Halsey and Spruance followed.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Mike Trout, leader of the Angels and destroyer of baseballs, hit a two-run home run that disappeared into the night.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• When the next major storm comes—next year, next decade or next century—the river will again become a destroyer.
  — Jeremy Miller, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
• And their role has largely been subsumed by the modern Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• The city also is currently home to 16 Burke destroyers.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
• These large weapons will be deployed in the vertical launch cells of U.S. Virginia-class submarines and Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
• The $4 billion includes money to start building a third destroyer, for $2.57 billion, as well as the two destroyers the Navy sought in the budget.
  — John M. Donnelly Cq-Roll Call (tns), al, 4 Aug. 2022
• It’s one thing to lie about an affair and another to try to turn a mob into a destroyer of democracy.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Behind them, a Turkish destroyer kept vigil, the blue of its gunmetal merging with the strait’s frigid waters.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• These are movies in which the colonizing empire is the bad guy, the destroyer and abuser of a new world and the people — called Na’vi — inhabiting it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
• Harper’s Ferry also turns to port, although the ship is not as nimble as the smaller destroyer.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Two days later, the U.S. military dispatched three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the area.
  — Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Navy has been planning to send a destroyer and an amphibious dock landing ship north for the celebration.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024