Sentence examples for building obliterated from inspiring English sources
All this might never have been discovered if an amateur dinosaur fossil hunter hadn't gone to lunch with his wife not long before the construction of a new building obliterated the site.
A powerful explosion caused by a ruptured gas main in the basement of an 11-story building obliterated the first 3 floors of the structure and destabilized the remaining 8 levels; 7 persons were killed in the blast, and 20 were missing and presumed dead.
New construction obliterated others.
The plane's blackened tail section — the only recognizable part — stuck out under Tuesday's gray skies, against a backdrop that could not have been more common in Lagos: a small plain church, a textbooks warehouse and a three-story, pale green cinderblock apartment building, partly obliterated by the wreckage.
Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku dōmu), which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, is the remains of one of the few buildings not obliterated by the blast.
First came the calls to destroy the Murrah building to obliterate evidence of the tragedy and help erase its memory, and also avoid the site's becoming a pilgrimage spot for lunatic sympathizers with Timothy McVeigh.
This crowded, all-over style pays tribute to a proto-Walker Evans photo of a market in Troy, N.Y., where the wood buildings are obliterated by a continuous collage of the same poster billing only the date of Ringling show's arrival, on May 29 19033).
His dastardly aim is to corner the nation's iron and take over China by building cannons and obliterating kung fu.
The old building was to be obliterated – collateral damage of a design that shows no interest or ability in adapting itself to anything around it.
