Sentence examples for razes from inspiring English sources

And indeed, many of the villages it razes do support the rebels.

Here a governmental body condemns an entire area, frequently one containing a number of substandard buildings and inappropriately mixed land uses, and then razes the area.

There are suggestions that illegal logging, which razes lowland forests to make way for vast plantations of oil palms and destroys the orang-utan's habitat, may mean that the "wild men of Borneo" will be extinct in the wild within a decade.

The one element of bonfire that no one wants to talk about is the making of the effigy – the fancy edifice each society unveils at its home event, then razes to the ground.

Most of the urban population lives in informal housing areas not recognized by the government, which often razes slums without warning.

At the beginning of "Detropia," a wrecking crew working for the city razes a small house, while a local-news anchor, standing in front of the demo job, tries to keep up a cheerful line of patter.

The houses surrounding that alley are among 900 in east Baltimore razed or about to be razed to make way for a $1.5 billion, 87-acre (35-hectare) development centred around a new office park designed to attract start-up life-science corporations eager to be close to Johns Hopkins University.

When her first son was a little over a month old, the city's bulldozers came to raze her home.

A government official and army general said the state government had not requested additional security in Chibok, although every other school in the area had been razed or attacked by Boko Haram.

Its neighbours have been razed for hotels, and it looks to be going the same way.

The journey to Maiduguri from Chibok is an 80-mile (130km) stretch of abandoned villages razed by Boko Haram's insurgency.