Sentence examples for devastating wave from inspiring English sources

The bomb, the largest conventional explosive in the American arsenal, is designed to explode three feet above the ground, sending a devastating wave of fire and blast several hundred yards to kill troops, flatten trees, knock over structures and demoralize those beyond the immediate impact zone.

The bomb, officially known as the BLU-82, is designed to explode three feet above the ground, sending a devastating wave of fire and blast several hundred yards to kill troops, flatten trees, knock over structures, collapse cave entrances and, in general, demoralize those beyond the immediate impact zone.

But in the span of a week, a devastating wave of attacks has killed dozens of civilians, rattled a public not easily shocked anymore and forced the government to concede that innocents are being swept up in the violence.

Piddington was among the earliest to recognize that a cyclone wreaks most of its damage not through wind but through water, by means of the devastating wave that is known as a "storm surge".

WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering a request by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to deploy National Guard troops along the southern border to stop a devastating wave of violence from spilling into this country from Mexico.

Similar sentiments expressed across the political spectrum underscored that whatever the difficult and uncertain diplomacy ahead in the Middle East, Mr. Bush's call to replace Yasir Arafat has the practical effect of appealing widely to pro-Israel constituencies on the right and the left that had been shaken by the devastating wave of suicide bombings.

Smaller, but still devastating, waves would wash up along South America, Australia and islands in the Pacific.

The aftershocks on Thursday sent coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, concerned that the tremors would again create devastating waves.

An earthquake along a newly discovered fault off the southeastern coast of Japan could generate devastating waves, scientists report in the journal Science.

Even though civilians are rarely subjected to anything close to the devastating waves that burst from battle explosions, the characteristics of blast injuries could lend insight into brain damage caused by single impacts in automobile accidents, for example.

News and social media feeds worldwide have been consumed by the devastating waves of violent attacks in Paris and Beirut, which took and maimed hundreds of innocent lives and seems to have left all of us reeling.