Sentence examples for devastating fast from inspiring English sources

They followed his lead tonight, handing out 32 team assists, scoring 23 points on their devastating fast break.

Mitchell Johnson proved so emphatically how devastating fast bowling can be during the Ashes, and has left England searching for something similar.

The Blue Devils ran the Buckeyes off the field, 21-10, Ithacaaca, N.Y., with an aggressive defense and a devastating fast break.

Sure, he missed some shots — everybody does — but the core of his game was still there: the devastating fast forehand, which had been his signature shot, and which had helped make him, at one point, one of the top five players in the world, and his chess-master-like ability to control the game.

It's impossible for a batsman to be as instantly devastating as a fast bowler like Johnson.

"It's pretty devastating on how fast something like this can happen," Simpson, a retired commercial fisherman, said in a phone interview from a saloon.

The economic crisis has devastated the fast-growing developments on the far suburban fringe.

Monday night's crash on a Colombian mountainside killed 71 people – including all but three of the 22-man squad and 20 sports journalists – and devastated this fast-growing town of 210,000.

The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes.

She was there, working and smiling, on the morning of 9/11, when the airplanes came in low and fast and hard, devastating the twin towers.

Yet now the government says it cannot live up to Mr. Hashimoto's pledge, because dropping fees so far so fast would be "devastating" to N.T.T. MEANWHILE, practical impediments to competition here have not been dismantled, adding immensely to the costs of any company trying to build a telecommunications system that challenges N.T.T. on its home turf.