Demolished in example sentence

Six feisty old folks -- blind Peter Brocco, hard-working superintendent Ian Wolfe and his nagging wife Ruth McDermott, kindly writer William Hansen, agoraphobic eccentric Frances Fuller and fierce, formidable old battle ax Paula Trueman -- refuse to leave their crumbling tenement building despite the fact that it's going to be demolished to make way for expensive high-rise apartment complexes.

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You know, these days, you always get images during the winter, when they take the roof down, of people who have been there and said, "They demolished the building."

And I live in the neighborhood, and I first read about it in the New York Times, in an article that said it was going to be demolished.

If there's a building down the block which is being demolished, are there materials there that the new building being built here can use?

We demolished more than 5,000 illegal buildings all over the city, up to eight stories high, the tallest of them.

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