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Example sentences for "razing"

Lexicographically close words:
rayson; rayther; raza; raze; razed; razon; razones; razor; razorback; razorbills
  1. The clause regarding the razing of fortifications was then discussed, and they began to raise objections, but I cut them short by observing that all the fortifications named were in our hands, and would be destroyed whether they agreed or not.

  2. It is not certain whether he accompanied "the gentle Titus" through Syria after the fall of the city and the razing of its walls.

  3. The Flavian Emperors, satisfied with the destruction of the sanctuary and the razing of Jerusalem, did not attempt to persecute the communities of the Diaspora.

  4. The envoys at the same time announced the razing of Panactum, which to them seemed as good as its restitution, as it would no longer lodge an enemy of Athens.

  5. And the violent deeds of civil war and the ravages of invasion swept by like whirlwinds, throwing down the walls, razing the palaces and towers.

  6. Rome which you dream of destroying with your bombs, which you talk of razing like a rotten, tottering house, so as to rid the world of it for ever!

  7. Thereupon the indignant citizens were stirred to vengeance from time to time, and often ended by razing great fortresses to the ground.

  8. Yet, the razing of Spain in 1930 fills one's better nature with sadness.

  9. On the other hand, the destruction and razing of Spain in 1930, as a punishment for her bad faith, received the warmest commendations of the world.

  10. It'll save your city-razing ships a little collapser-power.

  11. On my return, I fully expect to see the sky filled with Security ships from Earth, leisurely razing the entire city.

  12. A gang of woodmen from a neighbouring county, with an engine and all the machinery of their craft, had started to work razing to the ground everything in the shape of tree or shrub at the north end of the Black Wood.

  13. But a graver blame than that falling on the memory of Alexander through the destruction of Thebes rests on the Roman aristocracy for the razing of Corinth.

  14. French passions have probably been excited more frequently and more successfully by a reference to the razing of that unimportant place of Hüningen than by the loss of any conquered territory which France had to suffer in 1815.

  15. Other expedients were looked for, and the suggestion was often made that we should be satisfied with an indemnity and the razing of the French fortresses in Alsace and Lorraine.

  16. The razing of the walls after the overthrow of the revolt (Ammianus, xxii.


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