Destruction

//dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən//

"Destruction" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The destruction of the environment is appalling.

A nuclear war will bring about the destruction of mankind.

Industrialization of the region must be carried out very carefully to avoid environmental destruction.

Zen's latest mission is to save the Earth from ecological destruction at the hands of a plant-destroying madman.

The destruction of the ozone layer affects the environment.

Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction.

The war brought about death and destruction in the city.

War results only in senseless and violent destruction.

War is destruction of human life.

The typhoon left behind a trail of destruction.

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The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.

It may be that a free society as we have known it carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

About 1500 B.C., however, a powerful earthquake caused widespread destruction, and thereafter there were major changes. An earlier script, undeciphered, but known as Linear A, was replaced by the Greek Linear B.

Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

A group of wild cats is called a destruction.

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