ANNIHILATE in a Sentence

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1. There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated.
2. I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.
3. The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation.
4. Two divisions, the fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated.
5. Our soldiers annihilated a force of five hundred enemy troops.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANNIHILATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
annihilate
 v.  destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  It has reappeared to annihilate me, all through my life, in connexion with all kinds of subjects.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
3  It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He felt now that merely by having been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the Guards.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
5  Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
6  Two divisions, the fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
7  The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8  That formidable remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
9  There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
10  D'Artagnan, however, stupefied, cast down, annihilated by all that happened, stood, with crossed arms, before the Musketeer and Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
11  There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
12  She was like the stiff-necked unbelievers of Scripture, who must be annihilated to be convinced.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
13  Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated; oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
14  All those busy and ingenious speculations were now annihilated by the conduct of his captors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  If he had thought the regiment was about to be annihilated perhaps he could have amputated himself from it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  The enemy in its revenge tried to annihilate the entire population.
2  In his final days, Hitler revealed himself a power-mad nihilist, ready to annihilate all of Western Europe, even to destroy Germany itself.
3  The alliance between Hitler and the race he vowed to annihilate — the only instance of Jews fighting for Germany's allies — is one of the most extraordinary aspects of the Second World War, and yet hardly anyone, including many Finns, know anything about it.
4  Just one of these bombs could annihilate a city the size of New York.
5  Our soldiers annihilated a force of five hundred enemy troops.
6  The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation.
7  During the Cold War the threat of nuclear annihilation was always on people's minds.