DESTRUCTION in a Sentence

Learn DESTRUCTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
121 example sentences for DESTRUCTION, such as:
1. The flood caused serious destruction to the village.
2. The hurricane left a trail of destruction behind it.
3. You said, love is too deep but don't let their destruction.
4. Mendes led a movement to stop destruction of the rain forest.
5. He documented the destruction he observed during the Cosovo War.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DESTRUCTION
destruction
 n.  an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
 n.  the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the upbuilding of a country and the other in its destruction.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Despite all Frank had told her about the town burning to the ground, she had never really visualized complete destruction.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild--either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
7  Twenty times they thought the whirling eddies were sweeping them to destruction, when the master-hand of their pilot would bring the bows of the canoe to stem the rapid.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  Men, hot and angry in pursuit, were evidently on their footsteps, and each instant threatened their capture, if not their destruction.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
9  His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
10  He even darkly hinted that their success might be extended, with proper caution, in such a manner as to include the destruction of all whom they had reason to hate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  The sounds of the battle were over, and they had fed fat their ancient grudge, and had avenged their recent quarrel with the Mengwe, by the destruction of a whole community.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
13  It was criminal to stay calmly in one spot and make no effort to stay destruction.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down to destruction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Ulysses is not going to be away much longer; indeed he is close at hand to deal out death and destruction, not on them alone, but on many another of us who live in Ithaca.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Helping to alleviate poverty in developing countries also helps to reduce environmental destruction.
2  The hurricane left a trail of destruction behind it.
3  Many people are very concerned about the destruction of the rainforests.
4  The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
5  Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction.
6  You said, love is too deep but don't let their destruction.
7  He documented the destruction he observed during the Cosovo War.
8  Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
9  A huge amount of environmental damage has been brought about by the destruction of the rainforests.
10  Mendes led a movement to stop destruction of the rain forest.
11  Heedless destruction of the rainforests is contributing to global warming.
12  They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation.
13  The flood caused serious destruction to the village.
14  Unusually high winds left a trail of destruction over southern Britain.
15  Many species are threatened in the wild due to habitat destruction by man.