annihilate

in a sentence

Whenever antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate each other.

It is so much kinder simply to annihilate anyone who is ill.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

After several annihilating lessons of Sorry, Stephen and I make our way down to the deck by the Russian River.  (source) Dave Pelzer, The Lost Boy, 1997

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind.  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum, 1850

With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

I personally designed the antimatter trap that is keeping that sample from annihilating right now.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

Or would it be all the more annihilatingly delicious?†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

I waited for the sound of a parent's annihilated voice.†  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

That night, the commander sent a radio message to Palawan: "Annihilate the 150 prisoners."†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Her mother had spent ten years at Äppelviken, and it was where she finally died at only forty-six, after one last annihilating cerebral haemorrhage.†  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009

"Science annihilates distance," said my father disconcertingly.†  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944