6 sentences with 'destroying'
Example sentences and phrases with the word destroying and other words derived from it.
• « Sparta finally struck a decisive blow in 405 BC by surprising the Athenian fleet in Anatolia and destroying it. »
• « In the end, the Byzantines succeeded in destroying the Gothic kingdom and retaking Italy, but the war crippled the Italian economy and drained the Byzantine coffers. »
• « Spanish monarchs also attacked the privileges of their own nobility, in some cases literally destroying the castles of defiant nobles and forcing the nobles to come and pay homage at court (in the process neutralising them as a threat to their authority). »
• « In the years that followed, the French Wars of Religion became a three-way civil war pitting the Catholic League against the rightful king of France (both sides were Catholic, but were as focused on destroying each other as they were on fighting the Huguenots) with the Huguenots fighting both in turn. »
• « By 1908 they had moved from heckling to stone-throwing and other forms of protest, including destroying paintings in museums and, on one occasion, attacking male politicians with whips on a golf course. »
• « What Nazi strategists called the "War of Annihilation" launched by Germany against the Soviet Union was specifically aimed at destroying the Soviet population, not just its government, as the death toll so horrifically illustrates: some 25 million Soviets died, including approximately 17 million civilians. »