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Example sentences for "annihilated"

Lexicographically close words:
annexing; annext; annexure; anni; annihilate; annihilates; annihilating; annihilation; annis; anniversaries
  1. The right of increase, which can exist only within very narrow limits, defined by the laws of production, is annihilated by the right of occupancy.

  2. Thus is annihilated the Roman definition of property--THE RIGHT OF USE AND ABUSE--an immorality born of violence, the most monstrous pretension that the civil laws ever sanctioned.

  3. The honor of the master and his disciples thereby acquired a new lustre; and the sect, far from seeing itself annihilated or disgraced, was enabled to acquire new partizans in this credulous nation.

  4. After having annihilated the authority of scripture, our orator wished to prop his mission on the same scriptures, by which he pretended he was announced.

  5. Marche and myself in Edmee's company, all their inferences were annihilated by the composure and ease of our manners.

  6. That is to say, the infernal system of Pitt and his followers has annihilated three parts out of four of the farm houses.

  7. Themistocles and the allied Greeks virtually annihilated the fleets of Persia, I, 61, 75.

  8. Battle of Navarino, in which the fleet of the pacha of Egypt was annihilated by the combined squadrons of Great Britain, Russia and France, under admiral Codrington.

  9. The retreating and almost annihilated army of Cortez entered the dominions of their faithful allies, the Tlascalans.

  10. They had practically annihilated Halil Bey's original corps and cleared the Turkish troops out for many miles around.

  11. Again that unfortunate general was roughly handled--another of his divisions was annihilated southeast of Lemberg in a rear-guard action.

  12. At the end of five months a whole Austrian army corps had been annihilated by the Serbians and the rest of the huge invading armies had been driven back across the Danube and Save.

  13. We will let the rival communiqués relate what happened: Austrian Version Annihilated two battalions of Russian infantry belonging to the Alexander Regiment; took 1,400 prisoners, and drove Russians back beyond the Dniester.

  14. Our artillery annihilated two entire battalions and a third surrendered.

  15. Since the battle at Cannae annihilated the Roman power, and it is a fact that all Italy is in a state of revolt; in the first place, has any one people of the Latin confederacy come over to us?

  16. That a great quantity of corn was consumed and money expended; and that so many pitched battles, as they had annihilated the armies of the enemy, had also in some degree diminished the forces of the victor.

  17. Our age has annihilated space; danger lies in darkness and distance.

  18. That system of law really sank the female to total contempt and insignificance, almost annihilated her from the face of the earth.

  19. A blow from her slipper annihilated the auditory.

  20. Oswego, of ten times more importance even than Minorca, is so annihilated that we cannot learn the particulars.

  21. The Christian and Saracen armies were annihilated by the Kharezmians in the valley of Gaza.

  22. How many books I have disposed of and utterly annihilated merely by my silence, Eck, Faber, Emser, Cochlæus and many others could tell.

  23. What I say is, that the spiritual powers are not merely depraved, but altogether annihilated by sin, not less in man than in the devils.

  24. If there be nothing common to God and his creatures, God is annihilated for man, or, at least, rendered useless to him.

  25. Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand, and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years.

  26. The expeditions were checked, and indeed annihilated by petty skirmishes, and that lack of decision, so fatal to military commanders.

  27. Mr. Jefferson annihilated the minority of the republic.

  28. Crushed by the same blind destiny which annihilated the powerful personality of Father Ignatius, the piteous and tearful hero of "The Marseillaise" moves us even more than does the old priest.

  29. In "The Thought" we see the gradual development of insanity during the period when it is doubtful, when the will is almost entirely annihilated and replaced by a fixed idea, and when conscience is not entirely abolished.

  30. It was one of the entering wedges to the Revolution that made an awful opening in the monarchical mass that was ultimately split into atoms and annihilated by the wedges and malls of the hard-fisted sons of America.

  31. St. Clair and acted a most gallant part in the unsuccessful sanguinary battle of the 4th of November of that year where his regiment was nearly annihilated and himself mortally wounded.

  32. That curse came with the force of a sweeping avalanche--British power was annihilated in America.

  33. He therefore summoned him to surrender; but this Nejumi stubbornly refused to do; and a battle ensued at Toski, in which General Grenfell and the Egyptian army utterly annihilated the Mahdists.

  34. In Jamaica, it annihilated three-fifths of all the negroes imported, and it is now rapidly driving the remainder into barbarism and ultimately to annihilation.


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    Other words:
    dead; defunct; expired; extinct; gone; vanished