Sentence examples for devastating place from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

He wondered how this young girl could exude joy in the most devastating place he had ever seen.

There seemed to be some unshakable consensus that suffering was good for you, and that kids needed to suffer at the hands of their peers, so that they could learn that the world was a tough, damaging, emotionally devastating place where you would probably never be able to relax.

Rita Leistner has been to devastating places.

For most women, being handed a diagnosis of a chronic, progressive disease was devastating, placing women at risk for getting "stuck" in an emotional valley.

New Jersey was one of the most heavily devastated places by the storm and its patron state Bruce Springsteen will also be appearing with the E Street Band.

The ebb tide has devastated places like Hoyerswerda, a small town that was turned into a model industrial city by the Communists.

That speaks of an ugly truth: while outward migration to towns plays its part, a punishing mortality rate among men has devastated places such as Rybaki.

Over the coming years, the production downturn could devastate places like western Texas, the Dakotas, Louisiana, California's Kern County and anywhere else that produces American crude and gas.

That devastates places like Harlem, New York.

And it says the question could be devastating in places such as Prince George's.