How to Use destroyer in a Sentence

destroyer

noun
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  • The pamphlet describes alcohol as a destroyer of families.
  • The government has put some big boats, destroyers in place.
    — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The servicemen on the destroyer were told to abandon ship.
    — Jeff Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The system is used to protect the destroyer from anti-ship missiles and aircraft.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
  • That said, a real WWII destroyer was used for the movie.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
  • Maul, meanwhile, tears a path through the 501st forces aboard the destroyer, armed only with the Force.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
  • Its role as destroyer-of-all-microbes has become a vital component to public health.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 6 Apr. 2020
  • How, for example, does a destroyer elude two or more torpedoes speeding toward their target at the same time?
    — cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • But scientists do seem, after a long time, poised to take a broader view of other processes at work in this destroyer of minds and memories.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The Navy destroyer is adorned with the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger, from the flag to steel doors.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2020
  • To be clear: Washington was not the sole destroyer of the Pac-12’s world.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • Just over the weekend, the U.S. destroyer Carney shot down 14 drones.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • One of the biggest challenges for Cooper was the destroyer tank.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It’s one thing to be a chip destroyer, another to be a chip thief.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • This year, the list includes more fighter jets for the Air Force, a destroyer for the Navy, and helicopters for the Army.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • Besides, Squadron 11 wouldn’t be the only fleet of destroyers bound for San Diego that day.
    — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Sixty-four of the destroyer's 110 officers and crew died when the ship went down.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Streaming, for many in the business, is just the destroyer of movie theaters.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • For many Tunisians, Mr. Saied is the savior of the country, not the destroyer of democracy.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The destroyer will head to the Persian Gulf next month for a six-month deployment.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
    — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
  • China on Wednesday denounced the presence of the US destroyer in the strait.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • The ship is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer that was built in Seattle in 1958.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The Navy in the late 1980s moved quickly to build its then-new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer at two shipyards.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but the ship shot it down.
    — Tara Copp, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by enemy fire has been discovered.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The destroyer sank in just eight minutes, and 64 American sailors died in the attack.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Across the ten main categories of major weapons systems—such as fighter aircraft or destroyers—the United States maintains 33 types of systems.
    — Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Roosevelt is the flagship of a strike group that has recently included three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, $2 billion vessels that are designed to shield carriers from attacks by air, sea and land.
    — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024

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