Sentence examples for community was devastated from inspiring English sources

The farming community was devastated — but not for long.

The U.S. figure-skating community was devastated in 1961 by a plane crash that killed the entire U.S. team.

Mohammed Salih, a board member of the center, said the community was devastated by the sheik's detention.

"When Maggie [Thatcher] felled us, the community was devastated, but now the train means we're going to get a new generation coming along".

In 1996, 16 students and 5 chaperones from the Montoursville High French Club were killed on T.W.A. Flight 800, and the community was devastated.

Because so much of the community was devastated by demolition for urban renewal, arson and abandonment beginning in the 1960s, many newcomers have not so much dislodged existing residents as succeeded them.

"A lot of people in the community are devastated".

The whole community is devastated and deeply upset – heartbroken by her death.

Most of her friends were confirmed safe but, she said, "the community is devastated".

When Bain bought troubled firms, he said, the result sometimes was that "the companies go under, everybody loses their job, the community is devastated but they make money".

"A lot of people in the community are devastated," said Helena Hollinshed, 50, of Newark, who said she knew Ms. Houston as a child.