Sentence examples for destroys from inspiring English sources

The word "destroys" is correct and usable in written English
It is used when talking about something being completely damaged beyond repair. For example, "The hurricane destroys the entire beach front."

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destroys

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Third person singular of destroy

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Azfar Khan, a senior migration specialist for the ILO, says: "The kafala system destroys the balance between employer and employee.

I spent four of the most difficult weeks of my life fighting against a disease that destroys people of all ages and physical strengths.

It's called cheating, and it destroys what sport is meant to be about.

Criminalisation doesn't end demand – it just makes clients more afraid, and destroys any trust between worker and client.

In effect it destroys Tsvangirai's last hope of appealing to the southern African regional bloc to intervene and nullify the election.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.20pm BST23 20 The Washington Examiner's Timothy P. Carney destroys the idea that a Romney presidency would open the way for lobbyists to take over the White House, as advanced in a Politico story, "Lobbyists ready for a comeback under Romney".

Related: New York City fire destroys Manhattan buildings – in pictures Two employees of North Star Tattoo, a nearby business, told the Guardian they saw workers from a Japanese restaurant that was in the ground floor of one of the buildings running up a building fire escape and pulling "at least five" people from windows.

They use Iraq to divide us, just as they use Afghanistan where again their terror is the obstacle to Afghan democracy, just as they use Palestine where terrorism does not create progress but destroys it.

In pathological narcissism there is a complete lack of empathy towards those that rage destroys, such as the 149 others he killed.

Subsistence-level villagers in the Indian state of Orissa, who successfully campaigned to expel multinational bauxite miners from their sacred mountain, are among those who defiantly reject the remote-control politics that destroys social bonds as well as long-term economic possibility and environmental sustainability.

This is extremely misleading, as my other colleague (along with Josh Barro, Jordan Weissman, Brian Beutler, Matthew Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and others) has explained.When one says that Obamacare "destroys jobs", most people will understand this to mean that it will lead employers to offer fewer jobs to workers, causing higher unemployment and lower wages.

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