Get to know Demolished better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like dismantled or razed.
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Demolished meaning
simple past and past participle of demolish
Synonyms of Demolished
Using Demolished
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of demolish
- Useful related words include: dismantled, razed, destroyed.
- In the example corpus, demolished often appears in combinations such as: be demolished, was demolished, demolished in.
Context around Demolished
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Demolished
- In this selection, "demolished" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, absolutely, building, absolutely and dunlopillo stand out and add context to how "demolished" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ahead and demolished all the and and are demolished those being. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "demolished" sits close to words such as develops, gps and quinn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with demolished
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A lot of the housing has since been demolished. (9 words)
Eight houses have been demolished and five houses are set to be demolished. (13 words)
Sanders, Warren and Biden will get demolished absolutely demolished on the economy issue. (13 words)
A disabled woman – the last resident on a street being demolished to make way for £250million roadworks – says she has been made a prisoner in her own home by students who are using the road as a free car park. (40 words)
This work would also see the existing concrete garage being demolished to “expand the beer garden space and a section of the existing boundary wall will be demolished to form access into the extended area”. (35 words)
And now Vogue House is at the centre of a bid to stop it being demolished after publishing giant Condé Nast announced it would be quitting the Mayfair offices after more than 65 years. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
This work would also see the existing concrete garage being demolished to “expand the beer garden space and a section of the existing boundary wall will be demolished to form access into the extended area”.
The archway was demolished when the Three Tuns was rebuilt in 1904 and the delicensed Lamb on the right of the drawing was demolished in 1938.
Eight houses have been demolished and five houses are set to be demolished.
Sanders, Warren and Biden will get demolished absolutely demolished on the economy issue.
Constructed during Bourne's tenure, the Singer Building (demolished in 1968) was then the tallest building in the world and currently the tallest building to be intentionally demolished.
No additional members were added before Tampa Stadium was closed and demolished; when the stadium was demolished in 1998, so was the Krewe.
A disabled woman – the last resident on a street being demolished to make way for £250million roadworks – says she has been made a prisoner in her own home by students who are using the road as a free car park.
After several months of warnings and failed attempts to remove those persons, the Housing Ministry went ahead and demolished all the structures on the reserves on Thursday.
A landmark on a major route into and out of Gloucestershire is being demolished with bulldozers flattening the on the A417 at Birdlip.
All existing structures on the site except for Poddy Cottage would be demolished under the plans.
A lot of the housing has since been demolished.
A man evacuating from a-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, in a sector already demolished by the Israeli bombings.
An apartment block that will replace the now-demolished Dunlopillo offices in Pannal is beginning to take shape.
An application has been submitted to the District of Port Hardy for a McDonald’s fast food restaurant to be opened at the old Shell gas station site that was recently demolished.
And now Vogue House is at the centre of a bid to stop it being demolished after publishing giant Condé Nast announced it would be quitting the Mayfair offices after more than 65 years.
And that doesn’t account for dwelling units that are past their useful life and are demolished… those being, typically, the most affordable units, because of their poor condition.
An old bridge has been demolished by the civic body to construct a new one on Eastern Express Highway in Ghatkopar.
A ‘quadrant courtyard’, also made up of old shipping containers, was constructed in 2020 to seat customers outdoors, but the council demanded that it to be demolished after denying a retrospective planning application.
Around 15 other temporary structures were also demolished as part of the drive, police said.
A total of 89 people lost their lives and 22 people were injured in Galeria Sitesi, and it was decided that the complex should be demolished.
Common combinations with demolished
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- be demolished 55×
- was demolished 29×
- demolished in 24×
- been demolished 19×
- demolished and 17×
- demolished to 16×
- demolished by 12×
- were demolished 10×
- demolished the 10×
- being demolished 6×