Sentence examples for to destroy to from inspiring English sources

"Rape combined the desire to avenge with the impulse to destroy, to smash German luxuries and waste the fascists' wealth.

And they say that it contained no flutes, just long, unprocessed bamboo canes, which customs protocols required them to destroy to prevent the spread of plant pathogens.

He continued: "That way I have satisfied my desire to destroy, to disobey, and to recreate a sensitive, living, free world".

He began his opening address (which lasted through three sessions) with Pharaoh In Egypt and Haman's decree "to destroy, to slay, and to cause them [the Jews] to perish".

Purim celebrates Jewish deliverance from the evil plans of Harman, the Persian kings' counsellor, who, according to the author of the Book of Esther, tried "to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews," and failed.

For example, "consumer": "In almost all its early English uses, consume had an unfavourable sense; it meant to destroy, to use up, to waste … It was from C18 that consumer began to emerge in a neutral sense in descriptions of [the] economy … In C20 … the predominance of the capitalist model ensured its widespread and often overwhelming extension to such fields as politics, education and health".

Voldemort wants to dominate and destroy, to take over the entire magic world.

The park was to be destroyed to make way for a reconstructed Ottoman artillery barracks.

How big a proportion of the "group" does the perpetrator have to intend destroying to merit the g-word?

Houses had to be destroyed to make way for wider roads.

Russia had urged Syria to have them destroyed to avert US-led military strikes.