Sentence examples for building devastated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Salahat and a wounded colleague said they had been on their way to inspect a building devastated by Israeli shelling the previous evening.

Incredible images have emerged of the moment a four-month old baby was rescued from the rubble of a building devastated by the Nepal earthquake, 22 hours after the disaster struck.

Many hundreds were killed and most of the city's buildings devastated.

A second video showed the United Nations convoy leaving Moadamiya shortly before 5 p.m. local time, speeding through the town's empty streets and passing buildings devastated by airstrikes and shelling, en route back to Damascus.

In Nueva Gerona, strong winds destroyed well-constructed buildings, devastating the town.

The building industry, devastated by the collapse of the boom, is only starting to recover.

No one was killed in the blaze, but the vast interior of the landmark building was devastated.

In 1904 the palace served as a prison for deposed Sultan Murat V; in November 1909 the building was devastated by fire after housing the Turkish Parliament for a couple of months; after World War II the municipality took the land over and used it as a dumping ground for sand and construction materials.

Half of the city's buildings are devastated.

At any one time 51 people are chasing each job vacancy in a port city whose buildings were devastated by the Luftwaffe and whose trawling industry was destroyed by the cod wars of the 70s.

4.42pm BST My colleague Severin Carrell sends me this statement from Scotland's cabinet secretary for culture and external affairs, Fiona Hyslop: While thankfully nobody has been hurt in this fire, the destruction of this iconic building is devastating news and my thoughts are with staff and students who have seen the terrible loss of their workplace and academic work.