half-destroyed

• “Then just as insanely as it had started, the hole closed up in a snap, leaving a half-destroyed building and residual black smoke.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

• “She is now living in a half-destroyed one-room house with her entire family.”

  The Huffington Post: Zainab Salbi: Spotlight on the Struggle of Birtukan Mideksa: Ethiopian Human Rights Activist in the Global Women's Movement

• “Gulab Mangal spent less than an hour visiting a Marine combat outpost and a half-destroyed marketplace.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Coalition Prepares to Set Up Authority in Marjah

• “Even the English used by its eponymous narrator is crudely patched together from a language half-destroyed.”

  The Guardian: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

• “Easily twenty patients came to mind, many with limbs half-destroyed by land mines, others with long-neglected bone injuries.”

  Simon & Schuster: Lipstick in Afghanistan

• “A concrete ring looped in on itself in a figure eight, curving around a half-destroyed structure at its heart.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Oracle

• “Rubble is everywhere in this capital city: cracked slabs, busted-up cinder blocks, half-destroyed buildings that still spill bricks and pulverized concrete onto the sidewalks.”

  The Huffington Post: Haiti Earthquake: Just 2 Percent Of Quake Debris Has Been Cleared

• “Rudyard Kipling, Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan all come within spear-chucking distance of one another in a spectacular battle between armies from different time zones at the site of Ancient Babylon, now half-destroyed by the appearance of a mysterious and possibly alien artefact.”

  Archive 2010-01-01

• “For example, the remains of the half-destroyed Federal building were demolished just a few weeks after the explosion.”

  Compromise Reached In Restraining Order Case Against USMV Vet 9/11 Truther

• “Aside from some shipments of food and oil, these agreements have yielded nothing more than a half-built light-water nuclear reactor (by the United States and allies) and a half-destroyed nuclear complex (by North Korea).”

  John Feffer: North Korea: Journalists vs. Diplomats?

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