"destroy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Fires starting in the shingles destroyed many brick homes, mills, stores and outbuildings.
- The Sullivan Expedition moved through the area in 1779 destroying native villages and stores.
- Tallmadge's force destroyed stores and took captive not just the armed defenders but a number of non-combatants as well.
- Raiders captured 30 of retreating enemy and destroyed tents and stores.
- Although the British soldiers were ordered to destroy ammunition and stores they could not easily remove, large quantities of these were left intact.
- There is no doubt that direct price competition from large discount stores destroys small stores selling the same goods.
- Environmentalists say the army has been secretly destroying stores of chemical weapons in Shikhany, just four miles away.
- "It's one thing to destroy stores, they can be rebuilt, but this was a beautiful mix of people," he said.
- In 1929 a tidal wave struck this small fishing community destroying many small ships and local stores.
- For hours, the day following, they tried repeatedly to destroy Japanese factories and stores.
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