Sentence examples for almost razed from inspiring English sources

The video confirms the sheer and irrefutable destruction that has engulfed the third largest city of the country, now almost razed to the ground.

The destruction was not as severe as in 1993, when Cuito, formerly a charming colonial town, was almost razed by nine months of shelling.

When the fighting reached the north of the country, the hospital was almost razed, its maternity unit and storage area gutted by fire and its supplies stolen or smashed.

In 1960, the Tayloe House was nearly razed.

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.

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.

But their time there didn't last long, as the building was almost immediately razed by targeted firebombing from the authorities.

Europe razed almost half its temperate oak-, beech- and birch-woods in the Middle Ages, an onslaught only briefly reversed by an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.

As of this spring, fewer building permits are being issued and almost no historic structures razed in an effort to manage growth so that new houses enhance, rather than overwhelm, the architectural and natural environment This island, settled in 1642, is filled with historic buildings set in beguiling natural settings.

We need to raze almost every cultural belief that we have about sex, women, and rape and create an entirely new foundation from scratch.