| 1. | I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | They endeavoured, therefore, to annihilate his trade altogether. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | of having felled the dragon then they combine to annihilate him.--Fo. - from Beowulf by |
| 4. | What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | I was embarrassed how to punish him when I discovered his part in the business he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him but you'll see by his look that he has received his du. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | I did, though I vociferated curses enough to annihilate any fiend in Christendom and I got a stone and thrust it between his jaws, and tried with all my might to cram it down his throat. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 8. | Even should I break one of them with my first blow, for I figured that he would attempt to ward off the cudgel, he could reach out and annihilate me with the others before I could recover for a second attack. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 9. | My feat then was as marvelous upon Mars as it would have been upon Earth, and from desiring to annihilate me they suddenly looked upon me as a wonderful discovery to be captured and exhibited among their fellows. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 10. | It annihilates the desire to act. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 11. | Thus, if they had been annihilated , o. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 12. | Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 13. | She was weeping that her dream of her position being made clear and definite had been annihilated forever. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14. | In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 15. | He made several efforts to obey, but his little strength was annihilated for the time, and he fell back again with a moan. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 16. | That formidable remnant had been annihilated the Guard was dead. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 17. | Had the Martians aimed only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the home counties. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 18. | At any time the destruction that had already singed the northwestern borders of the metropolis, and had annihilated Ealing and Kilburn, might strike among these houses and leave them smoking ruins. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |