How to Use raze in a Sentence

raze

verb
  • Gaza is all but razed to the ground.
    — Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
  • It is not lost on me that wildfires have razed much of the city this past week.
    — Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Dood said all of that was razed and the site was hydroseeded.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2024
  • But two historic buildings will be razed in the process.
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But before that could happen, it was razed to the ground.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But before that could happen, it was razed to the ground.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • As a result, the building is razed.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Most homes this old would have been razed to make way for new construction.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The second boat, sent to the harbor to raze the ships, veered off course.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • Edelson’s team told Ars that the school has shut down and will soon be razed.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Once they are done with their work, the house and grounds will be sold, and all the structures razed.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Who among us hasn’t had the desire, at some point, to raze it all and begin again?
    — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The kids then have the home razed and build condos with a Starbucks.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Photos shared on social media showed the church razed by the storm.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • The Poor Clare nuns have since scrapped their plans to raze the building.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • In less than 24 hours, the fire had razed more than half of the market to the ground.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Stories where hurricanes don’t bear down on teenage girls and raze.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Forests were razed, up to 90 percent of the trees in some provinces.
    — Douglas McGray, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2007
  • Freed from predation, purple urchins razed vast swaths of kelp unchecked.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Much of the west end of the old school complex, including the gym, has been razed.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • Vikings razed most of the forests a thousand years ago—so all wood has to be imported.
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Eighteen months have passed since the overgrowth on the massive site was razed to the ground.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018
  • And what a voice — what an instrument of razing and of raising.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • Williams grew up twelve miles to the south, in an Atlanta housing project that has since been razed.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The units were razed in 1972 to make way for a Days Inn.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • It was razed by the Israeli military months ago.
    — Josh Holder, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Hundreds of insurgents were killed in the battle, and the city was razed.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • The façade was saved when the old building was razed and repurposed for the new structure.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • Countless structures were razed.
    — Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And through the years, as the property was razed and rebuilt, the land altered too.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023

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