How to Use annihilation in a Sentence

annihilation

noun
  • The surfer tells the quad squad that their planet has been marked by alien powers for annihilation.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • For our younger selves, staying with the big emotion might have felt like annihilation.
    — Patrick Murphy, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • How could a person deal with a constant sense of annihilation?
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • But the threat of annihilation has done nothing to slow them in their teenage rituals.
    — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Some stars might be fueled by the annihilation of dark matter itself.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
  • The question is, as more companies embrace this new era, what jobs are most at risk of annihilation?
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The stakes couldn’t get higher as Niko and her crew witness the annihilation of a planet.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • That is the kind of thing that can trigger wars that could result in the annihilation of much of humanity.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Self annihilation fueled with medicating left me a shell, and the world on mute.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • But are good manners enough to save Bonnet and his crew from annihilation by British forces?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For a star around eight to 12 times the sun's mass, there is another avenue to annihilation.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The film ends with the real video of the Israeli girls singing of Gaza’s annihilation.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
  • This process is called annihilation.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the lore about the chamber’s propensity for mind-annihilation centers on the concept of blood sounds.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The two countries’ brinkmanship brought the world to the edge of nuclear annihilation.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The second assertion was that the world is closer to annihilation than at any time in its history, which is wrong on the facts.
    — Marc Champion, Mercury News, 13 June 2025
  • The researchers waited for the flash of annihilation as the antiatoms escaped the trap and hit the walls of the container.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The problem then becomes what to do with the high-energy gamma-ray photons that arise from annihilation.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But instead of death, my victim was caught in a never-ending feedback loop of aphasia, agony, and annihilation of the self.
    — Jacqueline Goldblatt, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • Its charter calls for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Living through annihilation, on the other hand, is certainly a bad vibe, but doesn’t give the viewer much to hang onto.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Now the doomsday weapons had been, if not abolished, at least holstered, and the passage of time could mean progress, rather than a countdown to annihilation.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The world faced and walked back from the brink of nuclear annihilation without avoiding the very thing the crisis was designed to prevent.
    — Jon Wolfsthal, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That’s sappy but sweet stuff, arriving at a time when so much of the human project seems bent toward cruelty and annihilation.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Dread of nuclear annihilation hung over the globe throughout the Cold War.
    — Time, 24 July 2023
  • The soldiers were surrounded by a massive Russian force and on the verge of annihilation.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • No book has been published about the annihilation of Gaza, there has been no attempt to include it in the historical record.
    — Uriel Kon september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Suns bounced back from that one-point upset loss to Houston with a complete annihilation of the Spurs.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Some have heard in the end of Brahms’s Fourth grimness and destruction, a kind of gorgeous annihilation.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Each side sees itself as defending the nation from annihilation, and the other side not as a rival but as an enemy.
    — Marly Berlin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025

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