How to Use annihilation in a Sentence

annihilation

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  • 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
  • The stakes couldn’t get higher as Niko and her crew witness the annihilation of a planet.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Far in the future, past the death of the Sun and the annihilation of the Earth, everything will simply evaporate.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • 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
  • Mystique was pretending to be an X-Man in order to lay the blame on them and bring about the annihilation of all mutants.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The two countries’ brinkmanship brought the world to the edge of nuclear annihilation.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But are good manners enough to save Bonnet and his crew from annihilation by British forces?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Some have heard in the end of Brahms’s Fourth grimness and destruction, a kind of gorgeous annihilation.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • During the next five years, a much vaster idea began to take hold in the minds of the movement’s leaders: the threat of humanity’s annihilation.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The other is the Nazi annihilation of Germans of African descent.
    — Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has ticked away the minutes toward—or away from—annihilation.
    — WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • How could a person deal with a constant sense of annihilation?
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The country is still reeling from the rape, mutilation, and murder of more than 1,000 civilians by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of the state of Israel and its Jews.
    — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That annihilation of the Panthers marked only the second time since 2018 that a receiver has scored three touchdowns on go routes in one game.
    — Joey Knight, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But the phrase has also been adopted over the years by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of Israel, taking on a darker meaning that has long shaped the way in which it is received.
    — Liam Stack, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Self annihilation fueled with medicating left me a shell, and the world on mute.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • 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
  • Reagan’s close brush with death also led him to conclude that he had been spared by God for a higher purpose — and that was to lift the threat of nuclear annihilation.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Far from being exceptional, the sense of looming annihilation, of going about our daily business on the edge of an abyss, has been the norm for quite some time.
    — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Some stars might be fueled by the annihilation of dark matter itself.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
  • The movie, which is set in Oklahoma during peak storm season, does not skimp on the spectacle of annihilation.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 July 2024
  • The English began assuming the colonists at Roanoke likely suffered the same fate, and the narrative of annihilation took hold.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
  • This last phrase echoed comments made by Putin in 2008, regarding Russia's right to respond to threats of annihilation.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Washington, then 23 years old, took control and rallied the British troops, saving them from annihilation.
    — Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2024
  • No, Europe’s bravest patriots are the Ukrainians — fighting and dying to save their country from annihilation by Putin.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024

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