Sentence examples for impending devastation from inspiring English sources
He resigned his post, depressed, to quote from a letter to his father, by the impending "devastation of Europe".
The rapid advances in Pyongyang's weapons technology, coupled with its provocative propaganda about the supposedly impending devastation of America, are enough to make many lose hope for any solution to the current crisis.
And to discover how they could save us all -- including themselves -- from our impending devastation.
The Chilean expatriate Roberto Matta, working in Paris in the late 1930's, produced haunting, hallucinatory landscapes that prefigure the sulfurous atmosphere and physical devastation of the impending war.
In a Tuesday Facebook post, DeYoung expressed his devastation at the impending loss of his companion. .
Mr. Giuliani's grim appraisal of the search efforts foretold an impending shift in operations at the site of the devastation, away from the careful raking of debris in search of body parts to a more straightforward demolition job.
Instead, operators may react to an impending megastorm by preemptively shutting down large portions of the grid to save transformers, embracing short-term devastation to avert a long-term disaster.
By suggesting that reductions in council budgets will "wreak devastation on the lives of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people", Patrick Butler paints an apocalyptic picture of impending social disaster that I simply do not recognise (Savage cuts will leave people on the streets, 19 January).
