Sentence examples for devastation not only from inspiring English sources

"We understand that the reconnaissance imagery shows widespread devastation, not only buildings flattened but palm plantations, trees.

On Friday morning, some of the Israeli tanks withdrew and local residents emerged to confront a scene of devastation: not only smashed houses but streets churned up by military hardware, an olive orchard destroyed and Gaza's zoo in ruins, according to eyewitness reports.

From a historical perspective, the answer is that economies are capable of recovering and making progress, even after near devastation -- not only from war, as in the case of Germany and Japan after World War II, but also from economic chicanery, which is scarcely new.

Excuses are rendered senseless under the devastation wrought not only upon the women in his life, but self-sabotagingly upon Yunior himself.

Maryland experienced it Wednesday night, the exhilaration of getting in position to knock off No. 7 Duke, the devastation of not only losing, but losing ground with so little time left in the regular season.

In The Noose, a young coloured boy, whose main worry is whether he can have a cap gun and a Lone Ranger outfit, has to deal with the devastation caused not only by his family being moved out to a township, but also with his father being classified as African, which means that he will lose his job.

(By EPA) pic.twitter.com/7weUc7fNtT November 11 , 20139.35pm GMT The scale of devastation from Haiyan owes not only to the storm's strength but also to the vulnerability of Filipinos living in relatively flimsy housing and without ways of fleeing the storm.

Devastation by fire was not only used as an offensive tactic; some countries and armies employed 'scorched earth' policies on their own land to deprive invading armies of all food and forage.

"Not only the devastation.

The scale of the devastation was "extraordinary", he said, not only because of the cyclone and flooding but because the land had already had been saturated by earlier rains.

The cataclysmic nature of its sudden loss – as opposed to abandonment, or transformation over time, or devastation by enemy force – served not only to stop the remaining inhabitants literally in their tracks, but to conserve traces of their lives, and very bodies, as if frozen in time.