Sentence examples for by a single devastating from inspiring English sources

My idea of a perfect night in involves a bottle of wine and a rewatch of the nail-biting 1993 contest in which Ireland triumphed over the United Kingdom by a single, devastating "douze points".

It's a land out of time, or it was, until time took it back in, and a single edict devastated the place as swiftly and completely as Katrina devastated New Orleans.

But this was always about more than one final tilt at a place on the podium that had eluded her as a 22-year-old in Atlanta, by a single place in Sydney, to devastating effect in the fierce heat of Athens and once again in the smog and humidity of Beijing.

A lower-income single mother without health insurance can be financially devastated by a single visit to the hospital.

Huntington's disease, a devastating brain disorder caused by a single defective gene, is an example of a disease with a founder effect.

A defeat by a single goal likewise.

Games were officiated by a single umpire.

Houellebecq squeaked it by a single vote.

Juve leads by a single point.

(Mr. Hagel lost by a single vote).

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