The roach spray promised to annihilate the insects.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.answers.com/topic/annihilate]

Fifty years later, another man set out to "annihilate" a race of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Giago: The Editor Who Called for the Genocide of the Sioux] Reference

Williams points out that we could easily "annihilate" Iran or Syria with nuclear weapons launched from submarines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

For instance, if a peasant front is engaged in a struggle for ceiling surplus land, and the party decides to "annihilate".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

Turkey's PM Erdogan vows to 'annihilate' PKK rebels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

PKK attacks: Turkey's leader vows to 'annihilate' Kurdish rebels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

These two groups have one hope; to annihilate the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikileaks, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Taliban] Reference

Surely neither side thinks it can annihilate the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The aim has been to annihilate the city's Chechen defenders.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Like A Meat Grinder'] Reference

He had troops enough even to annihilate him in the open field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

  They've already said they're out to annihilate the U.S. and Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  ['People Don't Listen to History'] Reference

There was a chance to annihilate the Confederate army and end the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

With this withering invective, Bedelia looked as if she could annihilate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

Naval Base Kitsap Bangor in Silverdale, Wash., to annihilate pesky scotch broom plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free-Range Landscaping] Reference

Then Viljoen and Meyer were to close on the pursuers from either flank and annihilate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

All the bloodthirsty edicts of the Revolution could not annihilate a few thousand aristocrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Do not, therefore, for the present, annihilate us with the indignation of thy outraged virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Will Gorbachev see that if he tries to annihilate him, support for the man from the Urals will only grow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's Challenge] Reference

And little wonder she struggles to understand why on Earth one human being would conspire to annihilate another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jessica Stern's "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," reviewed by Marie Arana] Reference

Matter and anti-matter annihilate each other on contact, releasing energy according to Einstein's famous formula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Supports, and Local Reserves will annihilate the enemy and so prevent him from regaining cohesion and fighting power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

The cosmos has other ways to crush, incinerate or annihilate the planet, or merely make life as we know it real nasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [And If The Comet Misses] Reference

The absurdity of such a plan is only second to the absurdity of the thought that either side can annihilate the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The Rebs kept broadcasting right up to the end -- after which they surrendered before the cruisers could annihilate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Courage] Reference

As He is the highest, the ideal, the supreme, the soul finds rest in Him, and there grows into a life that death cannot annihilate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

It seems to annihilate all those rays of light, which, as it were, intercept the picture -- that come between the eye and the object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference