Sentence examples for * destroys in from inspiring English sources

What war destroys in an instant takes years to rebuild.

The second, more important, was the realisation that technology destroys, in more ways than one.

"A soldier destroys in order to build up; the father only builds, never destroys".

Perhaps what narrows, stultifies, destroys in architecture -- or in any art -- is not Modernism or postmodernism but any uncritically accepted orthodoxy.

Shinjuku Mayor Kenichi Yoshizumi reasoned in an interview with the Associated Press that any place Godzilla destroys in the movies is sure to prosper in real life.

By commemorating her in fiction, James was relieved of the duty to eulogize, and, in one reading of the novel, Milly Theale destroys, in complete innocence, the happiness of two other characters, the lovers Kate Croy and Morton Densher.

Degradation of the shoreline destroys in-shore habitat and spawning grounds for many fish species, further impacting the fish population.

"People argue about the sanctity of marriage in a religious situation, but we live in a country in which destroys that in more ways than one," he said referring to television shows such as VH1's "Rock of Love," in which busloads of woman compete for the chance to be in a relationship with an aging rock star.

6 15 P.M. (TCM) MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1954) Jacques Tati directed and stars in this amusing pantomime caper about a hapless vacationer at a middle-class beach resort in France who destroys everything in his wake.

In the right conditions stem rust destroys everything in its path.

December 26 A magnitude-9.0 earthquake, the strongest in 40 years, under the Indian Ocean unleashes a powerful tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands of people in more than 10 countries and destroys coastlines in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives, and India.