How to use "destroyed" in a sentence

He destroyed an important clue

Leblanc would be saved and Thenardier would be destroyed

The battle continued for some time; the cannon destroyed the upper windows of the wine shop, and did some damage to the barricade, but the rebels did not withdraw

'If I had continued to keep my secret to myself, I would have destroyed my own heart,' Valjean replied

Then the flame destroyed it

Its beauty could not be destroyed

It spun across the street, jumped the curb, crashed through a hedge, destroyed a plaster birdbath, and came to rest in the middle of a snow-blanketed lawn.

"You get the feeling that civilization could be destroyed while you're out here, and you'd never be aware of it."

They took away some of his instruments, but told the commissaire that the most interesting documents and instruments had been destroyed.

I promised Andre that fly would be destroyed, and I can say nothing until it is.'

I had already decided that the area around London would be the scene of a great battle before the Martians could be destroyed.

'My gun was destroyed last night, sir

I was walking the roads to clear my brain, and then - fire and death! All our work - everything destroyed

At about seven o'clock last night the Martians came out of the cylinder and, moving around in metal machines, completely destroyed Woking station and the houses around it, and killed around 600 soldiers

Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames and one, by a lucky chance, had been destroyed

In other cases the shells had missed, and the guns had at once been destroyed by the Heat-Rays

My brother spoke to several of the refugees but none could give him any news of Woking, except one man who said that it had been totally destroyed the previous night.

At that time there was a strong feeling on the streets that the government should be blamed because they had not destroyed the Martians already.

They have poisoned our gunners, destroyed Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon, and are moving slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way, It is impossible to stop them

They destroyed any weapons they found and wrecked the railways here and there

The front part of it had been destroyed completely

This place will be destroyed because of the bad things we have done!'

Now the neighboring ones had all been destroyed

Here I moved through areas which had been totally destroyed and others which were totally undamaged; houses with their curtains and their doors closed

As soon as they've destroyed all our guns and ships and railways, they'll begin to catch us one by one, picking the best and keeping us in cages and things

At any time the destruction that had already happened to the north-western borders of the city, that had destroyed Ealing, might strike among these houses and leave them smoking ruins

I came to a destroyed building-machine halfway to St John's Wood station

In a year, I thought, we would rebuild all that had been destroyed.

Two days after I was imprisoned it had been destroyed, with every person in it, by a Martian

In that case, the cylinder could be destroyed before it was cool enough for the Martians to come out, or they could be killed by guns as soon as the door opened

We may, on the other hand, still be destroyed by the Martians

'No, there was a great fire in Atlanta after her husband's death, and all her papers were destroyed.'