How to Use annihilate in a Sentence

annihilate

verb

• He annihilated his opponent in the last election.
• The enemy troops were annihilated.
• Just as the robot is about to annihilate the boy, the titular hero flys in saves the day.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• At last, fate affords Tár the chance to annihilate herself in the service of her art.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• To put that in context, each would be enough to annihilate anything in one to two city blocks.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The love winging around the room scares her with its annihilating force.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• The Tigers were annihilated by the Rays, 8-0, in the first of three games in the series at Comerica Park.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2023
• Standout garnish: The corn had a nice kick, and wasn’t too annihilated by the steam from the crawfish.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 17 Apr. 2018
• The mobile home was annihilated, and the Hawkins’ bodies were found a few hundred feet away from where the home once stood.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• By the next day, the booming town of Peshtigo had been annihilated and up to 2,500 people were dead.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Of course, this is the sort of view that, taken to its logical end, can annihilate the meaning of any event.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Bay tells the (fake) story of a seaside town that was annihilated by a parasite and the coverup that followed.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 June 2023
• At the sound of the sixth trumpet, two hundred million horsemen annihilate a third of mankind.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Boston trimmed to lead to 6-3 in the sixth when J.D. Martinez annihilated a pitch from Kikuchi over the wall in center for a solo homer.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• What kind of school-annihilating hardware might be available by the time this virus came full-blown?
  — Mark Jacobson, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• The Patriots’ defense with the help of Judon will annihilate.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• Black holes are massive beasts that annihilate anything that dares to cross them.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2019
• The Nazis wanted to erase the Jews and annihilate their civilization.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The one in which the Colts were annihilated by a Jaguars team that had lost six of its past seven games by an average margin of 21.5 points.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2019
• Or the leaders may clash and revert to threats to annihilate each other’s country.
  — Fortune, 14 Mar. 2018
• Bryce Harper stepped to the plate with the Phillies trailing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth and absolutely annihilated a walk-off grand slam.
  — Emily Caron, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• His 12th was annihilated by Ramirez, an outside four-seamer pulled to the right-center field seats for a two-run homer.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
• Netanyahu raised the issue of Iran’s threat to annihilate Israel.
  — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• Keep from being annihilated inside and there was a way for Kansas to do it.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
• Did Cologne annihilate the meaning of the abductions and the confiscations and the shootings and the gassings and the crematories?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• The photon pair cannot annihilate each other again and pay back their energy to the vacuum that surrounds the black hole.
  — Christoph Adami, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
• For over a century, weapons have been lethal enough that armies who mass exposed forces in the open have suffered annihilating loss rates.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• But also, the way Eva talked to Dre is probably the reason why Eva got annihilated.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• Move over The Last of Us, there’s a new biological threat sprouting to annihilate mankind.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 1 May 2024