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How to use demolition in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Demolition means the process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures. Example: “Thanks to a bureaucratic fait accompli, the demolition was already approved and has already started.”

Examples of demolition by meaning

nounThe process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.

  • During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52
  • The demolition crew was unable to pull the building down without injuring them.1955 December, “Notes and News: Women Delay Railway Demolition”, in Railway Magazine, page 878

More sentences with demolition

  • Thanks to a bureaucratic fait accompli, the demolition was already approved and has already started.From the entry fait accompli
  • The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.From the entry blow
  • They protested the demolition of the school.From the entry protest
  • The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.From the entry smash
  • In addition to non-stop demolition and construction, Hong Kong is constantly re-constructing and re-figuring its past.2015 July 9, Jennifer Eagleton, “A work in progress: An imaginary and re-imagined Hong Kong”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the…. From the entry City of Victoria
  • Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74. From the entry renew
  • “Permitted demolition or stripping rarely occurs on landmarked buildings,” she said.2007 March 25, Jeff Vandam, “Preservationists’ Rallying Cry”, in New York Times. From the entry landmark
  • The column then moved across the bridge to take a tiny lodgment and defuze the bridge demolitions.2004, The Journal of Military History, Volume 68, Issue 2, Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation, page 521. From the entry defuze
  • Davies, and Class Q6 0-8-0s returned to the line to haul the demolition trains.1962 July, “Talking of Trains: Barnard Castle trains withdrawn”, in Modern Railways, page 9. From the entry tracklifting
  • Jobs, such as painting, gutter repair, demolition work or window replacement, are often easier done using a scaffold.2015, Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, “Workplace Hazards and Risk Control”, in International Health and Safety at Work: For the NEBOSH…. From the entry scaffold
  • A head of a demolition company in Qian county, Shaanxi, said recycling demolition waste was a lucrative business.2010 June 19, “Recycling rakes in huge profits for demolition companies”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Qian
  • If the demolition is to use explosives, an exclusion zone must be established at a distance from and surrounding the structure.2007, Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction, page 165. From the entry exclusion zone
  • He batted in the 4th test after the Trinidad demolition.1995 June 20, Joshua Saunders, “Re: Team one v Team two.”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet). From the entry Trini
  • The creature was actually doing a neat job of demolition, using scissorlike claws to chop the sky-bike into small pieces.1972, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama. From the entry skybike
  • Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358. From the entry aesthetic
  • Neither Aracil nor his five friends have the money to pay for the costs of the demolition, which, they say, are punitively over-inflated.2022 September 24, Sam Jones, “Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry for the time being
  • 'Protests against the proposal were large enough to not only prevent demolition, but also get the bridge protected as a Rijksmonument, a listed national monument.'2022 July 8, Ryan Erik King, “Rotterdam Won't Dismantle Historic Bridge to Let Jeff Bezos' $500 Million Superyacht Pass”, in Jalopnik. From the entry rijksmonument
  • Its Western architectural style gave it an impressive appearance; but not anymore: on April 2, local authorities started the demolition of the church.2019 July 5, Zhou Xiaolu, “Over 100 Believers Pressured to Agree to Church Demolition”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 02…. From the entry Jintai
  • The legal requirement to link the demolition and upgrading of old bedstock as a condition for developing new accommodation is especially important .2012, Victor T.C. Middleton, Jackie R. Clarke, Marketing in Travel and Tourism, page 446. From the entry bedstock
  • If pressed he would call these catchweight fights, but they were really just demolition without a weigh-in or any formality beyond money changing hands.2011, Sam Hawken, The Dead Women of Juárez, →ISBN. From the entry catchweight
  • She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition.2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 177. From the entry astraddle
  • Navy demolitions teams were also mislanded; the survivors did their best to clear channels through the obstacles, but could not mark them.2000, Alan J. Levine, From the Normandy Beaches to the Baltic Sea. From the entry misland
  • The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry cutting
  • After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, pages 74–75. From the entry springing
  • Countless demolitions and re-edifications; a thorough unpurpose, so it seems, a thorough futility, that appears to be the truth and what could be more afflicting to an historian?1954, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica. From the entry unpurpose

Meaning of demolition

  1. noun The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.

Full definition of demolition

Questions about demolition in a sentence

How do you use demolition in a sentence?
Demolition is used as a noun. For example: “Thanks to a bureaucratic fait accompli, the demolition was already approved and has already started.”
What is a short sentence with demolition?
“They protested the demolition of the school.”
What does demolition mean?
Demolition means the process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.

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