Sentence examples for was being razed from inspiring English sources

Photo: At a Kabul site where a building was being razed yesterday, residents scavenged material for their own use.

During the years O'Hara was writing, the old Penn Station was being razed and Robert Moses was planning to run a highway through SoHo.

They hadn't known that the motel was being razed, and there were tears in Anita's eyes as she parked their car near the fence.

But the pastor had seen to it that the debt was paid off, and had also overseen the refurbishment of the church, arranging for the church to inherit a set of stained-glass windows from a nearby convent that was being razed.

Later, when the temple itself was being razed to the ground, Socrates relates that hieroglyphs in the shape of crosses were found incised in the stone.

"Our building in Chelsea was being razed for new condo development.

A historic part of Cairo is being razed.

Now, entire villages and towns are being razed, infrastructure destroyed.

Those units, built following the end of World War II, are being razed.

And wherever there is such demand for tropical agribusiness, forests are being razed to meet it.

There is little clear-cutting by loggers in the tropics, except where forests are being razed for agriculture.