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How to use annihilation in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Annihilation means the act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence. Example: “Bradley swore a mighty deep-space oath and braced himself against certain annihilation.”

Examples of annihilation by meaning

nounThe act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be...

  • the annihilation of a corporation

More sentences with annihilation

  • Bradley swore a mighty deep-space oath and braced himself against certain annihilation.1934 April, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Triplanetary”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 5, page 54. From the entry deep space
  • They're beset by blennophobia, the fear of slime, and spend long hours plotting the annihilation of slugs and snails.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry blennophobia
  • To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer.1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, pages 309–310. From the entry residueless
  • A gauge singlet, the hooperon, induces the GeV gamma ray signal in the Fermi-LAT data through annihilation into vector-like leptons or quarks.2016, Manuel Ernst Krauss, Toby Opferkuch, Florian Staub, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, “The 750 GeV Boson: Dawn of the Super-Hooperon”, in arXiv. From the entry hooperon
  • The oscillating strategies of annihilation, exclusionary containment, and assimilation with respect to Native Americans provide but one very poignant case and point.1997, Romand Coles, Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas, page 36. From the entry case and point
  • These four yugas make one cycle, and one thousand cycles equal one day of Brahma, after which there is a partial annihilation of the universe during Brahma's night.2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism: The Eastern Path to Freedom, Empowerment and Illumination, pages 386, 489. From the entry yuga
  • It is a world burning the candle at both ends, enjoying twice the light in half the time, and spinning all the faster toward annihilation and the Void.1989, Dragon Wars (video game manual), Interplay Productions, page 1. From the entry burn the candle at both ends
  • Earth, sky and deep, rise, come, be father for me: ascend before him into the day, to cover him from all his light, and your annihilation fall on him!1978, Plays and Players - Issue 1; Issue 26, page 46. From the entry unfather
  • Somewhere I read that proton-antiproton annihilations don't go straight to gamma rays, but first yield 5 short-lived pions which then go on to spontaneously decay into lower energy gamma rays.1991 October 24, Roger M. Wilcox, “Lynch's Spoiler Review: "Silicon Avatar"”, in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2022. From the entry sci.physicist

Meaning of annihilation

  1. noun The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
  2. noun The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
  3. noun The state of being annihilated.

Full definition of annihilation

Questions about annihilation in a sentence

How do you use annihilation in a sentence?
Annihilation is used as a noun. For example: “Bradley swore a mighty deep-space oath and braced himself against certain annihilation.”
What is a short sentence with annihilation?
“the annihilation of a corporation”
What does annihilation mean?
Annihilation means the act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.

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