Sentence examples for Completely raze from inspiring English sources

He had heard that the bulldozers would soon arrive to completely raze the fallen structure.

The Legislature intended that the demolition provision allow owners to completely raze buildings containing dilapidated and dangerous housing units in order to construct new, safe residential buildings.

Fire had completely razed the ground floor; debris covered the sweeping marble staircase.

The International Red Cross recently reached Toulépleu, and said it found a town almost completely razed to the ground.

Almost completely razed by air raids in World War II (though some medieval buildings still survive), Wesel was rebuilt along modern lines.

The buildings in this area of Paris was almost completely razed, while old streets were destroyed and new ones built during the Haussmannizing of the district and the creation of place de la République between 1854-79.

Forty-nine people died in nearby Arcquarta del Tronto and its tiny hamlet of Pescara del Tronto, which was almost completely razed, and most of the remainder were from neighbouring Accumoli.

In Idoru, for example, which centres on a rock star's marriage to an entirely virtual Japanese celebrity, the Walled City of Kowloon has been completely razed by the Chinese, and recreated in cyberspace as a kind of oasis of political and creative freedom.

It was now a wreck: a tangle of rubble and cables and dust, with half the ceiling missing and parts of the building completely razed.

Fans of The Brady Bunch (including Bass) can rest assured the famous home won't be completely razed and rebuilt as a mega mansion on its 12,573-square-foot plot (third of an acre) along the Los Angeles River.

More than 40 villages have been completely razed, Human Rights Watch determined.