Sentence examples for a storm devastated from inspiring English sources

In 1955, a storm devastated it.

During the Crimean War a storm devastated the French fleet at Balaklava, and the French scientist Urbain Le Verrier was able to show that if a chronological map of the storm had been issued, the path it would take could have been predicted and avoided by the fleet.

(Fox Cinema Archives, $19.98, mostly unrated) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD After a storm devastates her home in the Louisiana bayou, a plucky 6-year-old named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) sets off in search of her estranged mother.

She can roar in like a storm, devastating everything in her path.

I was the American ambassador in Honduras in the late 1990's when Hurricane Mitch, a Category 5 storm, devastated the country and hit all Central America.

A late-spring storm devastated the wild chokecherry crop that grizzlies depend on, and so many of them simply strayed east, in some cases 35 to 40 miles from the mountains, farther from their regular grounds than most local residents had ever seen.

A month later, after the storm devastated the island's eastern shore, the city reaffirmed its commitment to the North Shore.

Three weeks after the storm devastated the city, ACORN released a report -"How the sub prime mortgage industry is sandbagging Katrina-affected homeowners"- to expose the industry's double standard.

The great storm devastated the Jersey Shore.

Eighty percent of the city was flooded as the storm devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005.

Starting the morning after the storm devastated her community of Union Beach, N.J., Jeanette Van Houten and her niece have collected over a thousand photos and some photo albums.