How to Use demolish in a Sentence

demolish

verb
  • 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.
  • Yes, if the plan is to demolish.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Crews will demolish it floor by floor.
    — Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Even the field that the team called home has long since been demolished.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Last week, a judge gave her two weeks to move it or it’ll be demolished.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 24 July 2025
  • The city did not share if the pool would be demolished, nor what is planned for the site.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2025
  • City crews had not yet arrived to demolish his old dwelling.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Eid Barakat was forced to move from here when his house was demolished.
    — Seth Doane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The paddock that no one had dared to demolish.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • The bridge has been closed since last month and was in the process of being demolished.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • With the new bridge’s opening, the old iron bridge was demolished.
    — IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Two of those hotels have since been demolished.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • Thousands of homes were demolished in the blaze.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Video from the scene shows the garage demolished when the truck barely missed the home next door.
    — Christina Fan, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The plan is to demolish the building and bring back a replica of the space.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The set was scheduled to be demolished if no buyer came through.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But why save the sign now after much of the building has been demolished?
    — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The league tweeted that on the day the Deauville was demolished.
    — Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Nine days later, the house was demolished.
    — Dave Lieber feb. 25, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • It has since been demolished, and the new larger home is finished.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 18 July 2025
  • Genke now plans to demolish and rebuild the wall, the report said.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2022
  • When will the Alpine Lodge be demolished?
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Glass House will be demolished.
    — Bill Koenig, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The case was dismissed and the building is now demolished.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The mobile homes had been demolished.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Once a jewel, it was demolished.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026

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