Sentence examples for destroying bridges from inspiring English sources

8. Blasting and destroying bridges leading into and out of the cities.

She said that she could not confirm reports that the Taliban were destroying bridges.

Melting of the underside of the ice has caused flooding, forcing evacuations and destroying bridges and roads.

ATLANTA — A Florida man was charged with plotting a terrorist spree around Tampa, including bombing nightclubs, destroying bridges and shooting police officers in the name of radical Islam, federal authorities said Monday.

Ratsiraka's administration fled to the port city of Toamasina (also known as Tamatave) and attempted to blockade Antananarivo, utilizing such tactics as blocking roads and destroying bridges to prevent the delivery of food and fuel into the city.

The Israeli army seemed at a loss to explain the value of severing electricity to most of Gaza's population, and destroying bridges that will take weeks or months to repair, unless it is to make civilians suffer in order to pressure the armed groups holding Cpl Shalit.

He destroyed bridges instead of building them.

It washed out roads and destroyed bridges, halting regular commerce and travel.

The Soviet troops burned crops, destroyed bridges, and evacuated factories in the face of the German advance.

The subsidence has already damaged and destroyed bridges, pipelines and roads, and is threatening thousands of miles more.

And from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula down to Panama, homes were destroyed, bridges knocked out and roads swept away.