How to Use destruction in a Sentence

destruction

noun

• We are trying to save the building from destruction.
• War results in death and widespread destruction.
• There is the destruction of the bridge and damage to the ship.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
• But in a way, that’s where the seeds of destruction are.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
• It’s had to, and not just because of the destruction of the tsunami.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023
• The talk-radio host calls for the destruction of the party.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Goebbels ordered the destruction of every print of the film.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• But if death and destruction in Gaza spike in the days and weeks ahead, the U.S.risks being blamed for failing to prevent the worst.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The destruction from the explosion spanned nearly three miles and destroyed much of the town.
  — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• The plays express concern for the destruction of the natural world at the cost of human life.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
• Residents sit on the edge and look out at a scene of utter destruction.
  — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Another very real piece of the puzzle lies in the sheer destruction wrought on the landscape of Gaza.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Musk was shown standing in the pouring rain filming the images of destruction on his phone.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• The fire was one of five burning across the Panhandle that wrought destruction on the land and residents this past week.
  — Andy Rose and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• Life has been suspended on the shore, first by the continuing war and now the dam’s destruction.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• The riots following the Rodney King verdict were a mere 18 months behind us, and the fear of a city on the edge of total destruction still hung in the air.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• You are being deemed someone who’s seeking the destruction of the Jewish state.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• Cleanup is underway from Idalia's path of destruction across the Southeast.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
• While the surveillance video does not show the SUV ramming into the storefront, the footage shows the path of destruction left by the suspect's vehicle.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• This is where Ukrainian forces drew the line on the Russian advance in May 2022, halting it for half a year at a high cost of destruction to houses and lives.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Nobody needs to get rid of their preferred tool of wanton destruction.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• Calling on the strength of his ancestors, a young Mi’kmaq man reflects on the pain of bearing witness to the destruction of his homelands.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• In Hindu cosmology, Shiva is the god from whom all life emanates, the god of destruction and lord of time.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• What happened next would result in the destruction of a one-time capital of the Hawaiian kingdom.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Biden visited the island on Aug. 21 to survey the destruction.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Today, the signs of destruction remain, with dead tree trunks littering the hillsides.
  — David Schechter, Chance Horner, CBS News, 13 July 2023
• Satellite images showed the scale of destruction of Tuesday's airstrike in Jabalia.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
• That makes the destruction from storms like Hurricane Idalia harder to predict.
  — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• For some, the undulating tendrils of cane were a visual metaphor for the destruction of the Everglades, a precursor to the smoke that came each year.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• The scale of destruction implied by threats to use nuclear weapons is beyond any moral measure.
  — Zia Mian, Scientific American, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024