Sentence examples for devastation hit from inspiring English sources

Midfielder Gary Dicker, who was among the players helping out after a training session on Tuesday morning, said the scale of the devastation hit home as the players travelled back from Welling on Sunday.

The years after the Great Depression sparked a debate in the US about how to prevent such devastation hitting the economy again, after nearly 5,000 banks collapsed.

The devastation hits people like Karra Karra Guess and Daniel Guess Daniel Guess, she a commercial real estate broker and he an assistant United States attorney.

"The devastation of Hurricane Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area with unexpected fury.

In recent days, the photographer Mike Osborne has been in Houston, Texas, documenting the interior devastation of homes hit by Hurricane Harvey.

The United States is not racked with the turmoil that is shaking the Arab world, or the tragic devastation that has hit Japan.

Gerrard's sensitivity, when it comes to incidents off the field of play, was also illustrated by his genuine devastation when he hit a child in the Liverpool district of Norris Green while driving his Bentley last year.

Typhoon Haiyan, the monster storm that set a Hiroshima-level standard for natural devastation when it hit the Philippines on Friday, was so big that its spiral image laid over a map of the United States stretches nearly from sea to shining sea.

"Obviously it's not as widespread, but in the areas that are hit, the devastation is as bad, if not worse than what we had down there," he said.

Tim Walker ALI ABBAS In a war that delivered many images of devastation and despair, one hit a nerve more than any other – that of a 12-year-old boy, who had lost both arms and suffered severe burns over 60 per cent of his body when a US missile struck his home, killing his entire family and many of his relatives.

Had the region lacked improved fundamentals when the current disaster hit, economic devastation would already be rampant.