Sentence examples for devastating destroying from inspiring English sources

Child injuries are particularly devastating, destroying lives and making school and games a struggle.

But the rains frequently turn to floods, devastating crops, destroying homes and prompting outbreaks of diseases and diarrhoea.

With California's recent cluster of devastating wildfires destroying homes and claiming lives, Airbnb is offering some shelter to displaced residents in its home state.

But the world's focus is on the ruins and IS has taken pleasure in devastating and destroying similarly priceless, pre-Islamic archaeological treasures in Iraq, condemning them as idolatrous, he adds.

Iraq's first civil war developed after decades of authoritarianism, warfare and devastating sanctions destroyed Iraqi society, and after the 2003 American invasion dismantled the Iraqi state without a plan for swift reconstruction.

This book... it devastated me, destroyed me.

I have been devastated and destroyed by my son's death.

Some lawmakers demanded an apology from the organization; another said that "the hands working behind the scenes to devastate and destroy Afghanistan must be cut off," according to a rough transcript of the session by the United Nations.

Economically he has devastated Venezuela, destroyed the agricultural industry and hammered the free press.

A nine-month war in Yemen has devastated or destroyed more than 99 of the country's already fragile health facilities, including hospitals and clinics.

Communities were devastated, livelihoods destroyed, homes, schools and heath facilities washed away.