Example Sentences

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Every time a new oil field is discovered, the press cheers: “Hooray, there is more fuel for the self-destroying machines!”

From Salon • May 21, 2012

It seemed that the complex urban understanding was going through another periodic fit, obeying the logic of a self-destroying machine by Sculptor Jean Tinguely.

From Time Magazine Archive

For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that drives men to self-destroying quests.

From Time Magazine Archive

These days, many devices are rigged to be self-destroying, but that, in itself is a specialized field.

From Damned If You Don't by Dongen, H. R. van

Science is the one voice that condemns in these days the self-destroying madness of a world set on seeking to live habitually in the lower life.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold