Sentence examples for been destroyed in one from inspiring English sources

A way of life has been destroyed in one fell swoop.

A week later a phone call: only the nest inside the electric fence remained; the other three had been destroyed – in one case, so the camera proved, by badgers.

I feel that everything I have done in the last nine years has been destroyed in one day, but all the inspectors, young archaeologists, and administrators, are calling me from sites and museums all over Egypt to tell me that they will give their life to protect our antiquities.

"The program I spent my career building has been destroyed in one fell swoop," said Jones, in a phone interview after the ax fell.

Much other infrastructure is destroyed in one of the oldest civilisations on the planet.

Four homes were destroyed; in one of them, the whole family was killed, eight people".

Helwig, a first-time competitor, nearly dropped out of the competition after her house was destroyed in one of the climate-inflected wildfires that burned across Alaska last summer.

"It's the story of a corporate dynasty that represents years of Austria's economic and cultural history and the work of five generations that's destroyed in one," said Rainer Himmelfreundpointner, author of a book about the Meinl family.

'Grandpa, why is it called film?' 'Well, there were strips of transparent celluloid through which light was shone … 'OKOK Grandpa, we gotta go … ' The retention of the image … All the subtleties in a poem, all the things you put in the rhythm of words, can be destroyed in one look".

As a result, historians and paleontologists always assumed that the Philadelphia mastodon skeleton was destroyed in one of the fires.

But then the careful machinations of Rowland, Qaddafi, Khashoggi, Machar, and Garang to play Khartoum and its oil were destroyed in one fell swoop.