destroy a forest
Frequency: 7.210.1 per million words
to ruin or completely remove a forest
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Examples (10)
- The illegal logging operation threatens to destroy a forest that shelters endangered species.
- Decades of wildfires have gradually destroyed a once-thriving forest.
- If we keep building this road, it will destroy a delicate forest ecosystem.
- The dam project could destroy a forest and displace nearby communities.
- Protesters argued that clear-cutting would destroy a sacred forest.
- Have we really destroyed a forest just to mine a little ore?
- New policies aim not to destroy a forest but to manage it sustainably.
- By the time help arrived, the wildfire had nearly destroyed a remote forest.
- Don’t destroy a forest for short-term profit; plant around it instead.
- Will climate change destroy a coastal forest within our lifetime?