Example Sentences

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We have demolished the architecture of credibility and replaced it with a surface.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

In recent months, authorities have demolished illegal structures on a beach, and cracked down on construction along rivers and on hillsides.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

Downtown boosters promoted an urban renewal project that would have demolished most of the Market.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

While cord-cutting and streaming have demolished the ratings of entertainment cable networks that depend on scripted programming, households that remain in the pay TV universe watch a lot of news and live sports.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Cheap grain, the fruit of free trade, would have demolished British agriculture as completely as cheap cotton goods, the fruits of unlimited importation, has ruined Indian manufacturing industry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various