Sentence examples for its devastation from inspiring English sources

Eyewitnesses including Kraczyna – whose prints would later hang in the Uffizi Gallery – remember how quickly the water receded, just a day after it spread its devastation.

Obviously, the Boston Marathon bombing is a terrible trauma for all those who were injured by it, directly witnessed its devastation, or were closely connected with its victims.

Its devastation has closed it indefinitely, until it can receive several hundred thousand dollars for reconstruction.

This was an atrocity which no one, excepting perhaps the Jews, could truly comprehend, but it didn't mean its devastation didn't reverberate within each of us, our shock at what had happened tinged by our collective guilt at not having done enough to prevent it.

For the 50 million of us who stood in the path of Sandy and the rest who watched its devastation, isn't it time to ask our leaders how we can avoid a future where Frankenstorms like Sandy become the new normal?

"It's the regreening of the Black Country after its devastation," says Carol Thompson, curator of The Making of Mordor, a new exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery about the links between Tolkien's fantasy fiction and the Black Country's industrial past.

Americans may think of the disease that destroyed Ireland's potato crops, late blight, as a European phenomenon, but its devastations actually started with them.

IV As far as secular angels go there is always one, in Venice, in Milan, hardening that horn of ageing desire and its devastations, while skiers plunge and slide soundlessly past crevasses, invisible as thoughts, like the waitress buttoning her uniform already pronged by an invisible horn and lids that sometimes closed as if her form slept in the white peace after an avalanche.

That led to the destruction of a large part of the town, the flight of almost all its inhabitants and its further devastation by occupying British troops.

But this much can already be said: that the global war on terror, our own Mahabharata in its extensive devastation of bodies and souls, has found in a Mauritanian captive its true and complete witness.

Without drastic action, there is strong evidence that in a few years the spread of the disease and its economic devastation will rival the toll in Africa, where it kills millions every year.