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• A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.From the entry antiship
• The admiral will be commissioning the new destroyer in a few minutes.From the entry commissioning
• After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.From the entry depth charge
• A Bath boat is the Stradivarius of destroyers!From the entry Stradivarius
• Apart from Hiei, only three destroyers were missing from the roll call.2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:24 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived…. From the entry roll call
• Reports from SMS Kaiser indicate scouting destroyers attacked and destroyed a large submarine to the north.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry friendly
• We need to teach our youth to become builders instead of destroyers.2012, Kevin Alberto Sabio, “From Predators to Protectors”, in Raise Your Brown Black Fist 2!! More Political Shouts of an Angry Afro…. From the entry baby-mamma
• Might the sport revealed and recognized as a destroyer of postplaying lives become more of a turnoff?2008 February 1, Harvey Araton, “For Retired N.F.L. Greats, Checks Are Out of Balance”, in New York Times. From the entry postplaying
• If I could find a word that might make known The crime of my destroyer.1989, Ronald Verlin Cassill, “Love? Squalor?”, in Collected stories, page 12. From the entry icehearted
• Shortly after making the turn, his lookouts reported a destroyer bearing NE by E.1975, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Struggle For Guadalcanal, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 36. From the entry cat's-eyed
• He is the Creator and also the destroyer of what He creates.1971, Gopal Singh, The Religion of the Sikhs, New Delhi: Allied Publishers, published 1987, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry effulgent
• Admiral Glassford needed more cruisers, more destroyers, more submarines for the sea defense of Java.1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008. From the entry United Nations
• Genevieve was tall and blonde, a destroyer of masculine peace of mind.1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “Crowned Heads”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories. From the entry peace of mind
• Four kilometers behind them were the two battleships and the cruiser Mogami in line ahead, with a destroyer on each flank.2024, Walter S. Zapotoczny, “The Battle of Surigao Strait: The Last Crossing of the T”, in Military History Online, archived from the…. From the entry line ahead
• Tsai boarded the Kee Lung destroyer to supervise as troops practised defending against an attack on the northeastern port of Suao.2018 April 13, “Taiwan president watches naval drill as China tensions grow”, in France 24, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020. From the entry Suao
• I am the destroyer of mountains, the killer of kings, I always fly by yet I don't have wings.2014, Broomshakalaka, spoken by Denny Boffa (Michael McCafferty). From the entry galore
• Now, I saw cankerous malice in a destroyer.2008, Jonathan Gash, chapter 15, in Faces in the Pool, New York: Minotaur, published 2009, page 122. From the entry discharity
• Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet!2005, Frank Wade, A Midshipman's War, page 115. From the entry boots
• I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.1993, John Banville, Ghosts. From the entry regardant
• By the end of May 8 the Japanese had lost one light carrier, a destroyer and several minecrafts.1971, Bruce Bahrenburg, The Pacific: then and now, page 96. From the entry minecraft
• Destroyers may be compared with the cavalry of a former day and the tanks of a modern army.1966, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge: Volume 7, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 309. From the entry supertorpedo
• At the head of the fiord, and along its sides, can still be seen the hulks of German destroyers and submarines.1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384. From the entry fiord
• Apart from meals, it is a destroyer of arteries and a productor of sclerosis of the connective tissues throughout the body.1903, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the National Fraternal Congress, page 174. From the entry productor
• In the lead were two destroyers.2024, Walter S. Zapotoczny, “The Battle of Surigao Strait: The Last Crossing of the T”, in Military History Online, archived from the…. From the entry line ahead
• Hiei now loomed into the action, causing the leading U.S. destroyers to scatter before the oncoming behemoth lest they be run down.2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:35 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived…. From the entry behemoth
• Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry trade
• However, as I now watch turian and krogan fighters working together to take down a Reaper destroyer, I must admit I am impressed.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Impressive work. From the entry broker
• The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry nosefirst
• And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114. From the entry carrier
• One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean.1916, R. V. Russell, The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. From the entry exhauster
• Shockingly, under such a withering combined barrage, the Japanese destroyer promptly exploded and sank in short order, before even having had a chance to unleash her Long Lances.2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 12:55 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived…. From the entry withering
• Duncan, one of the racing trio of destroyers, and Boise independently spotted the contacts, and both Boise and Helena now reported their sightings to Scott, a few minutes later.2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 14:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original…. From the entry dislocated
• With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 31:46 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry not long for this world
• Hipper orders the destroyers to be more careful; the High Seas Fleet is approaching the U-boat patrol line, and he has a feeling they've just sunk a friendly.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry friendly
• Before long all the destroyers in his flotilla were painted medium grey with a dash of Venetian red, a tone that quickly became known as Mountbatten pink.2016, Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour. From the entry Mountbatten pink
• Ten minutes later the destroyers and cruisers opened fire on the Wolmi-do, their gun crews by now intimately familiar with the island's fireport caves and bunkers.2001, Joseph H. Alexander, Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951 (U.S. Navy and the Korean War), Naval Historical…. From the entry fireport
• Because the destroyer is generally considered the most versatile of modern naval vessels, it follows that dift'erent navies and commanders have held divergent views as to its proper role.1966, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge: Volume 7, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 309. From the entry supertorpedo
• Twenty-two Jap suicide planes sighted destroyer off Okinawa April 16 and for more than two hours bombed and crash-dived the ship in a wild and apparently unorganized attack.1945 July 30, John Hersey, “Kamikaze”, in Life, volume 19, number 5, retrieved 28 Oct 2015, page 70. From the entry crash dive

Meaning of destroyer

1. noun That which destroys something.
2. noun A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.
3. noun A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

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Questions about destroyer in a sentence

How do you use destroyer in a sentence?

Destroyer is used as a noun. For example: “A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.”

What is a short sentence with destroyer?

“In the lead were two destroyers.”

What does destroyer mean?

Destroyer means that which destroys something.