Sentence examples for devastation spread from inspiring English sources

But Laki's devastation spread well beyond the 'island of fire and ice.' The sulphurous haze quickly reached Europe, damaging crops and blocking out the sun's rays, leading to cooler temperatures.

Now imagine, as such "victories" multiply, versions of similar devastation spreading across the region. .

A reviewer from The Boston Globe said: "He is to English as a bad dog to a chainsaw: he worries it, and worries it, and devastation spreads around him".

So far the Bric countries seem relatively unscathed, while the impact of economic devastation has spread from Asia and Africa into Europe.

That smaller tragedy bodes ill for the multitudes trapped under rubble today: scores of people in the school died because the government could not free them quickly enough.No one yet knows how widely the earthquake's devastation has spread.

The video narration contradicted this, saying, "The devastation had spread an unprecedented combination of toxins through the air — and it was lethal".

The devastation is wide, spread across six Philippine islands.

Cole in 2000: These and other atrocities were part of a sustained, systematic campaign to spread devastation and chaos.

These and other atrocities were part of a sustained, systematic campaign to spread devastation and chaos and to murder innocent Americans.

The 15,000-lb "daisy cutter", which is supposed to spread devastation over a broad area, was not previously seen as a weapon to be used against what the Pentagon calls "hard and deeply buried targets".

Watching the devastation of AIDS spread all around her in a country with one of the highest infection rates in Africa, Mrs. Phiri decided in 1994 to take advantage of the new democratic atmosphere.