Sentence examples for most devastating event from inspiring English sources

My mother's death has been the most devastating event in my life thus far.

An ex-Amazon employee who had a stillborn child recalled how she had "just experienced the most devastating event in my life" but was then told by the company that she was being put on a performance-improvement plan.

"I had just experienced the most devastating event in my life," the woman recalled via email, only to be told her performance would be monitored "to make sure my focus stayed on my job".

The Uji heavy rainfall is considered the most devastating event to take place during the observation period of the Uji network between 2010 and 2015.

Losing a child is the most devastating event a human being can go through.

The U.N.'s refugee agency reports we are suffering "the highest number of displaced people ever -- surpassing even post-World War II numbers, when the world was struggling to come to terms with the most devastating event in history".

And when Twain faces the most devastating events of his life, even the film's knee-jerk sentimentality cannot diminish our sense of the sadness gripping him.

That is how the artist Gustav Metzger treats one of them in his installation series Historic Photographs, which revisits some of the most devastating events of the 20th century.

Not even the most devastating events known to occur in the contemporary world — volcanic eruptions, say, or forest fires — were sufficient to explain extinction; confronted with such changes, organisms simply moved on and survived.

WHEN the Latex Foam International factory on West Main Street in Ansonia burned down nearly two years ago, city and regional leaders called it one of the most devastating events to ever hit the Naugatuck Valley.

Not even the most devastating events known to occur in the contemporary world volcanic eruptions, say, or forest fires were sufficient to explain extinction; confronted with such changes, organisms simply moved on and survived.