Sentence examples similar to plague razed from inspiring English sources

When Jones was three years old, her mother, looking to outrun an abusive partner, moved the family to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn — a neighborhood then plagued by race riots, which often and instantly razed whole city blocks, both literally and spiritually.

He chose settings where life is hard to sustain — the Arctic, the urban ghetto, the sea, a plague-razed future — and where heroes must defy the odds.

Europe razed almost half its temperate oak-, beech- and birch-woods in the Middle Ages, an onslaught only briefly reversed by an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.

Albazino was razed.

Amshaw was razed.

Some will be razed.

That home was razed.

It was razed.

They were razed anyway.

They razed her village entirely.

Razed their minds of if and else".