How to Use demolish in a Sentence

demolish

verb
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  • The car was demolished in the accident.
  • The town hopes to restore the old theater rather than have it demolished.
  • The old factory was demolished to make way for a new parking lot.
  • Tons of explosives were used to demolish the building.
  • They demolished the other team 51–7.
  • The league tweeted that on the day the Deauville was demolished.
    — Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The stretch of the freeway, from near Boyle Heights and running west, might have to be demolished and replaced.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The set was scheduled to be demolished if no buyer came through.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • No; the cake slice should point directly at the person who is about to demolish it.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The second season risks a great deal by demolishing the cramped kitchen of the Beef, where much of the series was set.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Pruitt-Igoe was demolished in 1972 and the site has since remained vacant.
    — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • No, the cake slice (unlike the knife) should point directly at the person who is about to demolish it.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Scott-Mckinney said the porch was demolished with the dog under it.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
  • To lower the value of the site, the Bears demolished the racetrack last year to turn it into vacant land.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The six-bedroom house on the site was demolished in December.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That domed stadium, which the Rays have called home since 1998, would be demolished.
    — Curt Anderson, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the buildings were demolished and turned into condos, but parts of the façade are still intact.
    — Jordi Lippe, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The two houses currently in the space will be demolished and a new building will be built.
    — The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The city acquired this parcel in 2010 and demolished the house the following year.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • No one had the desire — or the cash — to demolish the place, as the terms of the Forest Service lease would have demanded had Carnegie just locked the gates and walked away.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • After that section of the city became part of East Germany in 1949, the country’s rulers demolished it to signal their break with the past.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • The Ram temple campaign, and the BJP’s image, suffered a setback in 1992 when a mob demolished the mosque, shocking the world.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The victim's house was demolished after his death and fencing was erected to attempt to contain the hole, which opened again in 2015, per the AP.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Not everyone agreed with the plan to demolish the building.
    — Julie Scott, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • The high-rise took its name from the storied Chateaubriand Restaurant, which occupied the site until it was demolished for the new office.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Then, in 2003, a complex of bars and shops on a plot of land in downtown Bangkok was demolished by hundreds of men early one morning.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Now that the search has concluded, the property will be turned over to the township to be demolished, according to Fox 29.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There's even a patch on the inside of the collar paying tribute to the Kingdome, where the team played until it was demolished in 2000 to make way for Lumen Field.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • It was not demolished as part of a false flag operation.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The old open-air paddock, with its line of stables, oblong oval walking ring and grassy center, was built in 1988 and has now been demolished.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023

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