Destroys

Examples

• Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This evidently destroys the precedent reasoning concerning the cause of thought or perception. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But of course the wooden seat is wrong--it destroys the perfect lightness and unity in tension the cane gave. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I could have been--but this nasty Lady W---- destroys half my illusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The heat of boiling destroys animal and vegetable germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But to let an innocent man be ruined; to keep a secret which destroys his character for life--Oh, good God, it's too horrible! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The oxygen in turn attacks the coloring matter and destroys it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A separation of the active doing phase from the passive undergoing phase destroys the vital meaning of an experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We indiscriminately employ children of different bents on the same exercises; their education destroys the special bent and leaves a dull uniformity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At her time of life, any thing of an illness destroys the bloom for ever! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• A bad earthquake destroys our oldest associations; the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a flui d. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But none of these destroy the soul in the same sense that disease destroys the body. Plato. The Republic.
• It is another thing which destroys him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The chlorine thus set free reacts with the water and liberates oxygen; this in turn destroys the coloring matter in the fibers, and transforms the material into a bleached product. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The engrossing of land, in effect, destroys this plenty and cheapness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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