Sentence examples for being devastated by a from inspiring English sources

Bermuda was being devastated by a yellow fever epidemic, and Dr. Blackburn said he practiced medicine in New Orleans and had a special knowledge of the disease.

Michelle Lerner Flanders, N.J., Dec. 11, 2007 • To the Editor: The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance is being devastated by a brain drain.

After being devastated by a financial crisis and the 2007-9 recession, the home market appeared to turn a corner early last year, helped by steady job creation and extremely low interest rates.

Lepage scaled back for his following two pieces: his first one-man show Vinci, in 1986, about a photographer who embarks on a cultural odyssey across Europe after being devastated by a friend's suicide; and, a year later, Polygraph.

On 3 March 2011, Westenra led one of the national anthems "God Defend New Zealand" in a London Westminster Cathedral vigil service together with about 5,000 Kiwis fundraising charity for her hometown Christchurch, after being devastated by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on 22 February 2011.

It was renamed Gorgān in the 1930s after being devastated by an earthquake.

Two of the region's dominant reef builders staghorn coral and elkhorn coral were being devastated by an ailment that became known as white-band disease.

In 1656 the city was devastated by a great fire.

But I would not be devastated by a loss.

I've come to know families that were devastated by a food-borne illness.

Moore was devastated by a tornado about two years ago that killed 24 and injured more than 300.