Sentence examples for gone destroyed from inspiring English sources

The old Hav is gone, destroyed in an obscure event called the Intervention.

The ancient Buddhas carved into the great cliffs on one side of the valley are gone, destroyed by the Taliban in its Islamic fundamentalist fervor.

Already, almost every Lutyens bungalow in private hands has gone, destroyed in the welter of demolitions that took place between 1980 and 2000.

But on Aug. 19, nearly all of the shops were gone, destroyed by a flood that struck Winsted and 70 other Connecticut cities and towns.

The mill on the banks of the Merrimack River is now gone, destroyed in what was then one of the world's largest decontamination projects ever, and most people in Manchester have forgotten about the outbreak.

Long before the latest war began, the fabulous art treasures of Afghanistan -- deposited there by overlapping Greek, Buddhist and Islamic civilizations -- were presumed gone, destroyed by 20 years of war, economic desperation and, most recently, by the Taliban's fundamentalist brand of Islam.

Destroy the painting and the art is gone; destroy a particular volume and the art is unaffected; an identical replacement sits on the shelf at your local bookstore.

In addition, fossil pollen records indicate that a large proportion of glacial lowland coniferous woodlands went destroyed by fire in the early Holocene as summer temperatures rose [ 29].

We poor Russians have to go destroy it.

The Monster and Ben find Desmond and the Monster forces him to go destroy the Island.

Each emperor burned crops and food supplies as he went, destroying the Germans' means of sustenance.