Destructive

"Destructive" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Suspicion is destructive of friendship.

Small children can be very destructive.

Excessive drinking is destructive of our health.

Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.

I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today’s literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

Dynamite fishing is extremely destructive to reef ecosystems.

Hurricanes are very destructive.

Tornadoes are very destructive.

There exists a fine line between helpful and destructive fears. But there is a line. Our job is to find it and walk it.

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The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.

After rescuing his estranged daughter in the last film, Live Free Or Die Hard, Willis heads to Russia to rescue his estranged son (Jai Courtney), a CIA agent on a mission to protect a whistleblower (Sebastian Koch) from a corrupt government official (Sergei Kolesnikov) with no shortage of destructive resources at his disposal.

Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.

Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.

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