Sentence examples for area was devastated from inspiring English sources

When Union troops moved through unexpectedly, the area was devastated.

When classes first started, the area was devastated by drugs, violence, poor housing and empty lots.

The area was devastated in the 6th and 7th centuries by the intermittent warfare between Byzantium and Sāsānian Persia.

Since then PNG's economy has sharply declined and earlier this year the central highlands area was devastated by an earthquake.

The entire area was devastated, and repairing the effects of the blast took many years and cost an estimated $1.5 billion.

Hot spots could keep flaring up for days on a New Jersey shore boardwalk where a fire leveled four blocks and about 30 businesses just 10 months after the same area was devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

Large parts of northeastern France, the nation's most advanced industrial and agricultural area, were devastated.

— Jeff Gordinier Food Curated: In the flooding after Hurricane Irene, many farms in the New York area were devastated.

In my past experiences of bleached corals, the effect is patchy and, while one area is devastated, another will be mysteriously untouched.

Xanadu Resort in Belize for example built the resort using monolithic dome construction which enabled it to weather Hurricane Keith, keeping all its guests and employees safe while the surrounding areas was devastated.

In 2004 the coastal areas were devastated by a tsunami generated by a nearby massive undersea earthquake.