11614 examples of destroying in sentences

As for the Armenians, the Government has been destroying them by massacre and deportation since April, 1915business and professional men, peasants and shepherds, women and childrenwithout discrimination or pity.

"During the subsequent pursuit of the Belgian and English armies we heard repeated complaints from the inhabitants that especially the English troops had acted in the most inconsiderate manner, purposely destroying furniture, etc., in civilian houses.

England could only dispel the danger of war by destroying this false conception, i.e., openly joining Russia and France.

Full knowledge on these points would probably be of great assistance in destroying the "trail of the serpent" (i.e., German influence and intrigues) in the political and national life of Great Britain.

They are against the war, and their method of making known their protest is by burning our grain, destroying our lumber, and blowing up freight-trains.

Don't let us take any chances on destroying the home, which is the bulwark of the nation.

mountain of steel!I can reduce to dust a hundred mountains of steel!What is a mountain of steel to me!" Afrásiyáb rejoiced to find such confidence in the stranger, and instantly promised him his own daughter in marriage, and the monarchy of Chín and -chín, if he succeeded in destroying Rustem.

Then give them back, nor such a doom provoke, Beware of Rustem's host-destroying stroke.

SÚSEN AND AFRÁSIYÁB Soon after Afrásiyáb had returned defeated into Túrán, grievously lamenting the misfortune which had deprived him of the assistance of Barzú, a woman named Súsen, deeply versed in magic and sorcery, came to him, and promised by her potent art to put him in the way of destroying Rustem and his whole family.

But what is most unfortunate for the defence of Mogador, the water could be instantly cut off by destroying its aqueduct.

As the destroying angel only passed over the doors and preserved those who had received the mark, so can we only be saved by being willing to apply the blood of our dear Saviour to wash and cleanse us from our sins.

On a rugged rock rising abruptly on the right, near to the spot where this interesting vista first opened, they beheld the remains of the ancient walls of Phyle, a fortress which commanded one of the passes from Baeotia into Attica, and famous as the retreat of the chief patriots concerned in destroying the thirty tyrants of Athens.

Certain chemical agents that are capable of destroying micro-organisms and their spores have come, of late years, into general use.

Indeed that, in itself, is a disease; and one, too, which is destroying more persons every year than the cholera, or even the consumption.

Yet that is the method of progress in which no step, once taken, needs to be retraced; and it is the only way in which a democracy can avoid destroying its institutions by the impulsive substitution of novel and attractive but impracticable expedients.

A new Confederacy is formed, contrary to oaths and compacts, for the purpose of destroying our Union, and giving perpetuity to slavery.

Clovis had succeeded about the year 485 of our era, in destroying the last remnants of Roman domination in Gaul.

HOLDEN: Make it easier by destroying the dream? FEJEVARY: Not at all.

MADELINE: (quietly) I don't see how you can keep me from 'destroying myself'.

Therefore he contented himself with destroying the fortifications of La Rochelle, filling up its ditches, and changing its government.

A battleship ought to be constructed for battle, that is, for the purpose of destroying the enemy's fleet, for which purpose it will never be used alone, but in conjunction with a number of ships like itself forming the weapon of an admiral in command.

Suppose that, with the exception of some sore or painful spot, we are physically in a sound and healthy condition: the sore of this one spot, will completely absorb our attention, causing us to lose the sense of general well-being, and destroying all our comfort in life.

I do not say, therefore, but what your cause is the best; frankly though, can you hope to bring over to your side that large body of citizens, whose confidence you had shaken, by massacring innocent people in the streets, and destroying their dwellings?

This act, therefore, is devoted, not, as the orthodox formula goes, to raising an obstacle between the lovers, but rather to destroying one.

Whether the servant died under the master's hand, or after a day or two, he was equally his property, and the objector admits that in the first case the master is to be "surely punished" for destroying his own property!

11614 examples of  destroying  in sentences