Sentence examples for and was annihilated from inspiring English sources

Although influential Polish friends had secured escape routes, he refused to abandon his young wards: he boarded the train with the orphans and was annihilated with them.

A Welsh poem composed about ad 600 describes how a band of the Gododdin (as the Votadini were known in Welsh), from around a place called Din Eidyn, attacked an Anglian force at Catterick in Yorkshire and was annihilated.

The Newfoundland Regiment attacked here on the first day of the offensive and was annihilated.

"This year is a completely different story to last year," said Raikkonen, who rarely felt comfortable in the 2014 Ferrari, and was annihilated by team-mate Fernando Alonso as a result.

Species appear and vanish, cultures develop and are annihilated.

Their first great clash with Romans came at the end of the 2nd century bc, when the Cimbri and Teutoni (Teutones) invaded southern Gaul and northern Italy and were annihilated by Gaius Marius in 102 and 101.

If they did bump into something made of normal matter, they would react with the ordinary protons in it and be annihilated.One place where it is possible to manufacture antiprotons routinely in this way is CERN.

These rays were produced when a barrage of positrons struck the spacecraft's detectors and were annihilated by making contact with electrons there".

I'd been drinking since early afternoon and my parents arrived home at about 3 30AM, so I was annihilated and struggling to stand.

Its rhino population was annihilated and most of its elephants wiped out in 1970s and 80s.

In the pitched battle which followed, the rebel army was annihilated and Spartacus was killed in combat.