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raze - use in sentences
Object
- village: The warriors set off on horseback and proceed to raze the rustic village to the ground.
- building: The priests heal with their breath; with breath expelled as sound they can raise great weights or raze a building to the ground.
- head: Argent a fesse gules between three eagles ' heads razed sable with three scallops or upon the fesse.
Subject
- fire: Description: The Banqueting House is the only surviving fragment of the palace of Whitehall, razed by fire in 1698.
Modifying Another Word
- completely: One hotel had one wing completely razed to the ground.
- then: They then razed all traces of it from history.
- also: The church with 400 women and children locked inside was also razed to the ground.
- systematically: After brutally ending the uprising, the Germans systematically razed Warsaw to the ground.
- reportedly: Serb forces have reportedly razed the majority of the town and its surrounding villages.
Infinitive complement
- ground: It was razed to ground by the German forces along with the rest of Warsaw in 1944.
Preposition: of
- village: It was not an isolated case: the Americans had authorized the razing of villages throughout the province.
Preposition: by
- fire: Description: The Banqueting House is the only surviving fragment of the palace of Whitehall, razed by fire in 1698.
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