Example Sentences

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As infatuation consumed her, van den Heever summoned the tonal amplitude to fill out Wagner’s portrait of a love that is annihilating in its totality.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

But knowing, in that immediate and unmediated way, what people thought about my writing felt . . . the word I keep reaching for, even though it seems melodramatic, is annihilating.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2019

In an age when the megamovie blitz is annihilating the art film and the B film, such expert devotion to the banquet of cinema culture deserves a wider audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the things which imitation of Western ways is annihilating is distance.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

It is not France that destroys and dissolves Germany, but Germany is annihilating herself.

From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)