Sentence examples for destroy means from inspiring English sources

Every new tonne of oil, coal or gas we burn, or forest we destroy, means more stress for the Arctic and higher risks for us all.

(Although he explained to immigration officers that "destroy" means "party really hard" in English slang and that the remark about Monroe was just a bad joke, it didn't stop the border officials from actually searching the couple's bags for spades and shovels).

In graffiti terminology, "destroy" means full of tags, graffiti pieces.

The fact that all records prior to 1977 were destroyed means that there are many who may never know for certain if a family member was buried on the island.

The reasoning is simple: To destroy the means by which one exercises a right is to destroy the right.

"Destroyed" means ruined, and doesn't need the modifier here.

But the bearing is critical to battling the bane of relentless spinning: friction, which can slow, cripple or destroy machines meant to work flawlessly for years.

By destroy, I mean either keeping the deal from closing out, and/or wiping out a chunk or all of your profit.

Not missing a beat, Rimbaud reveals the anarchist plot to destroy Greenwich Mean Time and shares his thoughts on this concentration camp we call reality.

They also know that incinerating Tel Aviv means irradiating all of Palestine — that destroying Israel means the destruction of Tehran, Qum and their other great cities.

It certainly could not do this more effectually than by destroying the means of the offense.