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  • noun Plural form of destroyer.

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Examples

  • Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • They've bought the Soveremenny class missile destroyers from the Russians, that were designed to do one thing: kill American aircraft carriers.

    Clinton and Hunter engage China as debate topic 2007

  • Here are Volume 1 (costermongers and street-sellers); Volume 2 (more street-sellers, cleansing, and sewer work); Volume 3 (vermin destroyers, street entertainers, labourers, cabbies, vagrants); and the Extra Volume (vice and beggars, co-written with Andrew Halliday) - all with Mayhew's well-researched statistics and personal interviews.

    Archive 2003-09-01 Ray Girvan 2003

  • Here are Volume 1 (costermongers and street-sellers); Volume 2 (more street-sellers, cleansing, and sewer work); Volume 3 (vermin destroyers, street entertainers, labourers, cabbies, vagrants); and the Extra Volume (vice and beggars, co-written with Andrew Halliday) - all with Mayhew's well-researched statistics and personal interviews.

    A sewerage miscellany ... and Henry Mayhew Ray Girvan 2003

  • Goats are often described as destroyers of ecosystems, only farmed in desperate situations when the land can not support other livestock.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • You remember that we got fifty destroyers from the United States of America and that small escort vessels were being rapidly built at home and over here.

    The Coastal Command and Its Work with the Royal Navy 1942

  • I had the honour of being present recently at "an Eastern Canadian port" and of seeing the destroyers from the United States handed over to the Canadian Navy, and it was an experience which I shall never forget.

    The War and its Implications for Canada and the Empire 1940

  • Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

    Negore, The Coward 1907

  • Less than two years after the Boston Tea Party, many of the tea destroyers were already taking up arms to defend the American colonies from Parliament 's attempt to strip them of their rights.

    Noble Patriots or Glorified Vandals? Benjamin L. Carp 2010

  • Navy to name destroyers after 2 combat heroes - USATODAY. com

    Navy to name destroyers after 2 combat heroes 2008

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