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How to use the word DESTROY in a Sentence?

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

added by Normando
2 months ago

Every new day begins with a clean white sheet of paper. Clear your brain of foul-smelling garbage. Destroy the parasites of the mind that wound the heart.

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
4 months ago

Sure it takes two to make the relationship work, but it only takes one to destroy it all.

Christina Ramona Taylor

added by sassyrican_2
11 months ago

My achievements should never be my enemies fear but rather the ability to destroy them after those achievements

KIZZA RONALD

added by kizzaronald
11 months ago

You’ll hear from Ms. Carroll herself, she’ll testify about the allegations and how Donald Trump responded with vicious lies meant to destroy her.

Shawn Crowley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

Tommy Douglas

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.

John F. Kennedy

added by Normando
1 year ago

Think about that: that murder weapon will be back on the streets one day, it’s time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors.

Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You get all the comfort and mobility of tights but with added durability on the butt and the knees so you do n’t destroy them within the first mile of scrambling.

Heather Balogh Rochfort

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes

added by Normando
1 year ago

We are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy the Chinese nuclear development program that they have projected out over the next 10 to 20 years, they’re going to do that in accordance with their own plan. And there’s very little leverage, I think, that we can do externally to prevent that from happening.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That type of scorched earth policy is going to destroy conservative talk in Florida in the meantime, i work for a privately owned broadcasting group that will not be able to afford a barrage of lawsuits before we wait for it to go before the Supreme Court.

Dave Heller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Either the deep state destroys America, or we destroy the deep state.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid.

The UN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The FDA continues to ask for more and more taxpayer money to stop fentanyl and opioids at international mail facilities, but it appears to be using that money to refuse and destroy an increasing number of regular international prescription drug orders.

Gabe Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
1 year ago

To be able to employ The F-16 effectively, Ukraine would have to achieve some degree of air superiority, this means Ukraine would have to destroy Russian S-400 air defense systems first and foremost, and preferably S-300 too.

Peter Wijninga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy.

Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They created the monster that could well destroy them in 2024.

Tom Malinowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They gave us a House in which Marjorie Taylor Greene will have immensely more power than they have, a House that will continue to do crazy things that voters in Biden districts hate, they created the monster that could well destroy them in 2024.

Tom Malinowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re trying to destroy Herschel to deter young men and women of color from being Republicans. If they destroy Herschel, it will deter people of color from wanting to be conservative Republicans because you just have your life ruined.

South Carolina

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m not going to sit back and let someone like Senator Warnock, let someone like former President Obama, or let someone like President Biden destroy Georgia or destroy this country because this country means a whole lot more to me than anything.

Herschel Walker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment.

Rick Weiland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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