Sentence examples for leave devastation from inspiring English sources

At least the floodwater is an enemy that will certainly have retreated in a week or two, although it will leave devastation and suffering behind.

For 200 years, American sheep farmers have left devastation in their wake.

When the Soviet army pulled out 10 years ago, it left devastation behind.

Donald Trump has, in short, been like a Category 5 hurricane sweeping through the U.S. government, leaving devastation in his wake.

You have to think of the mysteries that Hopkins is grappling with: that growth and maturity is desirable, but it leaves devastation in the wake of its progress.

"I do not make a comparison with the miners' strike because the miners' strike left devastation that lasted very many years.

When a bomb comes crashing down on a building, leaving devastation in its wake, they rush towards the site instead of towards shelters.

Believing that their deity, Enkai, had bestowed upon them all the world's cattle, the Masai marauded among neighboring tribes, rustling cattle and leaving devastation in their wake.

They have frequently left devastation in their wake and have treated the public sector as dumping grounds for airy-fairy ideas such as "transformation" that have been rejected by the private sector.

Few sympathise with them or the dozens of other senators, deputies and business executives who have been ensnared in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation, but the scandal – along with a collapse in oil and other commodity prices – has torn through society like a tornado, leaving devastation in its path.

Fire always leaves devastation behind and the family is obviously upset and the neighbours".