1.   It took a few months to destroy this illusion.

2.   It took just moments to destroy that illusion.

3.   It seems to me you find yourself in destroying illusions, smashing myths, laundering the head of whitewash, being responsible to some truth, to the struggle.

4.   Sometimes actors blink at the wrong moments, destroying the illusion that the words they are saying are spontaneous and reflect real thought processes.

5.   That design not only destroys the illusion that your work is floating before you but also presents a number of technical limitations.

6.   The most important thing about the battle in Afghanistan was that it destroyed the illusion of the superpower in the minds of the young Muslim mujahedeen.

7.   With a presidential election coming, the Mexican government could not stop borrowing, lest it destroy the illusion of an ever-growing economy.