Object

• bacterium: These natural sealants are better because they do not destroy the bacteria but often enhance them.

• planet: A giant robot ship has wandered into the galaxy and is destroying planets in its path, digesting the debris for fuel.

• enemy: When you destroy an enemy your score will go up.

• habitat: The first three ate dodo eggs, and the last planted sugar cane and destroyed habitats.

• everything: But others could adapt and go on to destroy everything in their paths.

Subject

• fire: October 22 Warwick, Rhode Island: In the early morning hours a fur store's delivery van was destroyed by fire.

• bombing: The Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals offered emergency supplies of pet food for those whose household stocks were destroyed by bombing.

• earthquake: The intention is to fund a project which will help to rebuild communities destroyed by the earthquake.

• tsunami: Given that tens of thousands of houses were destroyed by the tsunami, providing adequate shelter has been a key priority.

• bomb: It was destroyed by a single bomb in May 1942.

Used with why or when

• whatever: All of this was to suggest an implacable force that would destroy whatever was put in front of it.

Present participle complement

• invade: Shock and grief led to a reduction in the number and effectiveness of his white blood cells, the ones that destroy invading germs.

Preposition: in

• blitz: The St Michael's buildings were destroyed in the blitz of November 1940.

Preposition: by

• fire: October 22 Warwick, Rhode Island: In the early morning hours a fur store's delivery van was destroyed by fire.

• bombing: The Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals offered emergency supplies of pet food for those whose household stocks were destroyed by bombing.

• earthquake: The intention is to fund a project which will help to rebuild communities destroyed by the earthquake.

• tsunami: Given that tens of thousands of houses were destroyed by the tsunami, providing adequate shelter has been a key priority.

• bomb: It was destroyed by a single bomb in May 1942.

• arson: In 1014 the bridge was destroyed by arson, destroyed by a storm in 1091 and then destroyed by fire again in 1136.