Example Sentences

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A year ago, Cambodia said it had razed a U.S.-funded facility at the Ream naval base to allow for further expansion.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2021

Firefighters in northern California were battling a fast-moving wildfire early Sunday that had razed buildings, forced thousands to flee, and hospitalized four firefighters with second-degree burns.

From MSNBC • Sep. 13, 2015

A “slum clearance” program had razed a neighborhood of narrow, overcrowded nineteenth-century dwellings, replacing them with a hulking complex of eight hundred and fifty units.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

By the early 1900s the McWillies had razed their 1840s Greek Revival house; their cemetery survives in the woods there.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2012

In the meanwhile the besieged had razed the houses and the convent of St. Augustin, in order to prevent the enemy from entrenching themselves so near the city gates.

From Joan of Arc by Gower, Ronald Sutherland