Sentence examples for devastated of from inspiring English sources

Hemlocks, as handsome as they are, have been devastated of late by the woolly adelgid and many home landscape professionals are cautious about planting them.

Abbey, "devastated" of course, cantered off to an "upmarket equestrian centre", and was papped as Terry's Toni, another horse fancier, consoled her in the stables: polo may be the sport of princes, but dressage is the pastime of Wags.

Its 61,000 employees would be devastated, of course, and they've already seen their wages cut twice, their pension plans disappear and their post-retirement health-care coverage vanish since the airline filed for Chapter 11 protection in December 2002.

Here, in the Chivati-Huacal monarch sanctuary, one of the most severely devastated of the monarch roosting areas, government programs and international groups have arrived with great fanfare to dictate to these subsistence farmers how they should and shouldn't live for the good of the world's beloved monarch.

"I was devastated, of course.

I was expecting, even hoping, that this would be just another faceless fast food experience, where I'd leave full of belly and devastated of spirit, just the way I like it.

I'm devastated to hear of Wes's passing.

I am devastated to hear of your loss.

But his insistence in 2012 that angels did not sing at the birth of Christ devastated lovers of carol "Hark!

The Great Recession hurt ad sales, of course, and devastated sales of direct-marketed books.

The monsoon season brought nearly a week of heavy rain, which also devastated parts of India.