Example Sentences

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Instead of competing as a limited series, “Shōgun” now will annihilate any and all comers in the drama categories.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

In the absence of any external forces, electromagnetic or gravitational, the clouds of both the particle and antiparticle will overlap, and they will annihilate each other.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023

These matter-antimatter pairs are otherwise very similar but will annihilate when brought together.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

You will annihilate any creative fashion content and turn the whole thing into a turgid country-club ball.”

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2013

If you object, if you hesitate, if you suspect me, you will annihilate the purest sensations which these souls have mutually cherished: you will wrong both yourself and me.'

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas