Sentence examples for pounded to rubble from inspiring English sources

Whole villages have been pounded to rubble.

Eventually its fortifications and 50-foot-high walls were pounded to rubble.

In July several tombs of Sufi saints were pickaxed and pounded to rubble by Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups.

Danzig was pounded to rubble at the end of the war; the early chapters of this memoir focus on "the boy who left the city at a time when all its towers and gables were still intact".

All over Southwark, as soon as Thames Water has finished pounding the tarmac to rubble (ECK-ECK-ECK-ECK for hours on end) and smoothed over the scar, some gas company promptly repeats the process in the same spot.

It was the support of some 700 US air strikes that helped the YPG win the battle for Kobani, though it reduced this small city to a seascape of shattered concrete where buildings have been pounded into rubble by the force of the bomb blasts.

The city's remaining buildings were pounded into rubble by the unrelenting close combat.

THE NEWS Much of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's command compound in the capital, Tripoli, was pounded into rubble as NATO suddenly and sharply escalated its air campaign over Libya.

And, as Davis wryly observes: "Allied bombers pounded into rubble more 1920s socialist and modernist utopias than Nazi villas".Mendelsohn was the architect of some of the very best of these white, concrete dreams.

Monasteries such as Ganden, which Mr. Kurlantzick visited and described as "a living, working house of worship," were in fact pounded into rubble by Chinese artillery after the Tibetan uprising in 1959, leaving only a hint of what they had once been.

Israel's guns and bombs pounded large parts of besieged Beirut to rubble.