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How to use self-destruct in a sentence

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Even if I had achieved some of the worldly fruits of living, they would self-destruct at some point.
Cartels may self-destruct, but will in most cases be less efficient than mergers.
He mistrusted humanity's capacity to save or significantly improve itself, and was pretty certain that our civilization would self-destruct.
It could self-destruct, and it is doing little at the moment to help itself.
The whole match was also one in the eye for Reds boss John Harvey, who saw his team self-destruct for some unknown reason.
To me, it's going to self-destruct, and I think that has to be addressed by the industry.
The tape explained that it would self-destruct in 40 seconds.
I have to be careful not to throw the self-destruct switch when I get in a mood like this, wallowing in a pit of self-pity.
It clearly says on it that it will self-destruct some time after you unseal the package.
I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.
And like Stuxnet before it, Duqu was designed to self-destruct weeks after infecting a particular machine.
The missile flew for several minutes but an internal defect led to a self-destruct.
Newt could self-destruct before that, but waiting for such a meltdown is not a strategy.
The post will self-destruct in a clever way after twenty-four hours.
At this point, why not sit back and wait for this crazy experiment to self-destruct?
The condition of the wreckage suggested that, if the pylon support spindle broke in flight, the helicopter did not immediately self-destruct.
The theory is that if the mechanisms that signal cells to self-destruct are prematurely disrupted or turned off, then chemotherapy won't work.
Yet the lesson demonstrated in Southern Lebanon in 2006 was that self-destruct clearly did not work to a satisfactory standard.
This can be achieved by the inclusion of fail safe systems, including self-destruct systems.
When their older replacement mainsail began to self-destruct a week ago, Fossett called it a day.
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Buyers had little patience for the engine's poor fuel economy, ordinary performance, thirst for oil, and its propensity to self-destruct.
When a UAV loses its connection with ground control, it is programmed to self-destruct.
It was unknown how many infected computers received the self-destruct command.
The US Army has recently been busying itself with the testing and certification of a variety of self-destruct fuze products.
The problem, experts say, is that poorly managed self-directed IRAs can self-destruct.
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