Sentence examples for they were annihilated from inspiring English sources
They were annihilated with 19.3 overs remaining.
He said that Europe "60 years ago refused to lift a finger to save millions of Jews on whose soil they were annihilated".
Kazakh nomads had grazed their flocks here, until they were annihilated by Stalin, after which the vast steppe turned into what one writer has bluntly called "Stalin's dumping ground".
And the Communists, and whatever other leftist forces that can coalesce in the ashes of Baathist Iraq, surely know what happened to their Iranian equivalents when the mullahs gained power: they were annihilated.
The Giants were not merely defeated in the Super Bowl; they were annihilated with a suffocating completeness that -- rightly or not -- raised questions about everything positive that happened in the weeks before the game.
Australia were not just beaten, they were annihilated, by seven wickets with 18 balls of the match remaining, their muscularity with the bat held at bay by England's all‑round excellence with the ball, and then, when Michael Clarke wanted some incisive bowling from his vaunted pace attack, utterly dominated by the England batting.
People go to watch a movie and they're annihilated by some warped kid dressed as the Joker, who has illegally bought weapons and 6,000 rounds of ammunition".
With hellish cries, the mounted invaders charge through the black mud and into the village, where they are annihilated by a frenzy of makeshift spears and deadly arrows.
Image caption Mr Erdogan described the latest PKK attacks as "cowardly" Turkey has vowed to fight Kurdish rebels until they are "annihilated", after attacks killed 11 soldiers.
But when a particle and its anti-particle collide, they are "annihilated" in a flash of energy, yielding new particles and anti-particles.
After the positrons have been implanted, they are likely to diffuse at thermal energies and can still propagate some distance randomly through the sample before they are annihilated freely in the lattice or at the surface, or possibly to be trapped prior to annihilation.
