Sentence examples for were being razed from inspiring English sources
Under Napoleon III's prefect, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the medieval alleys of Paris were being razed to make way for grand boulevards.
And wherever there is such demand for tropical agribusiness, forests are being razed to meet it.
Huge tracts of the Chaco are being razed in a scramble into one of South America's most remote corners.
Personality of Mrs. Charles F. Mac Lean, and history of her mansion, 130th Street and Fifth Avenue, which is being razed to make a playground.
Dilapidated lane houses and tenements are being razed to make way for high-rises, boutiques and yoga studios.
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.
The complex is being razed, and the land will be restored to how it looked in July 1863.
That is likely to exacerbate a trend where growing areas of the US west are being razed by fire.
About three-quarters of the farm's existing buildings and paddocks are being razed and converted to pasture.
Photo: At a Kabul site where a building was being razed yesterday, residents scavenged material for their own use.
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.
