Use destroys in a sentence
Short sentences using destroys
- Your heresy destroys every art. [10]
More example sentences with the word destroys in them
- And on the whole this method has some large advantages; for whereas a revolution destroys some lives which cannot well be spared, the dynamite way doesn't. [5]
- Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
- This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more. [5]
- I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains. [4]
- The union of several remedies in a single prescription destroys its utility, and, according to the "Organon," frequently adds a new disease. [3]
- To live it out, resisting the power that destroys so long as might be--that was the divine secret. [11]
- There is really no objection to this--the terror of the surplus is a sort of nightmare in the country--except that it destroys the simplicity of the festival, and belittles small offerings that have their chief value in affection. [4]
- Machiavelli was no less honest when he honored the diabolical force than Carlyle was when at different times he extolled the strong man who destroys liberty in creating order. [5]
- His delightful humor is of the kind which dissipates and destroys national prejudices. [5]
- Polly says she is entirely willing to make a certificate, accompanied with an affidavit, with regard to this hoe; but her habit of sitting about the garden walk, on an inverted flower-pot, while I hoe, some what destroys the practical value of her testimony. [4]
- To keep friendship in proper order, the balance of good offices must be preserved, otherwise a disquieting and anxious feeling creeps in, and destroys mutual comfort. [14]
- Plutarch says, the ibis destroys poisonous reptiles, and that priests draw the water for their purifications where the Ibis has drunk, as it will never touch unwholesome water. [10]
- This unfortunate thing has been a great sorrow to Chang, for it almost destroys his usefulness in his favorite field of effort. [5]
- The first mother, following the tribal custom, destroys four daughters and preserves two. [1]
- The few meagre facts of Harriet Shelley's life, as furnished by the book, acquit her of offense; but by calling in the forbidden helps of rumor, gossip, conjecture, insinuation, and innuendo he destroys her character and rehabilitates Shelley's--as he believes. [5]
- In the rounded, exquisite lines of her figure there was the promise of that ineffable fullness and delicacy of womanhood which all the world raves about and destroys and mourns. [4]
- The unerring and eternal Mind destroys this imaginary copartnership, formed only to be dissolved in a manner and at a period unknown. [5]
- Only, this time, do not let it be a professor's wife who foolishly destroys herself, and cuts short what might have been a brilliant career. [11]
- But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood. [7]
- Nothing more quickly destroys the character of a journal, begets distrust of it, and so reduces its value, than the well-founded suspicion that its editorial columns are the property of advertisers. [4]
- The revolt from authority, the assertion of the right of private judgment, has been pushed forward into a socialism which destroys individual liberty of action, or to a state of anarchy in which the weak would have no protection. [4]
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