Sentence examples for ravages for from inspiring English sources
Through it all, the city's residents, whose ancestors endured such ravages for the better part of a millennium, have adapted as best they could.
Despite past ravages (for many, this causeway tops the list), there's still lots left to protect: gently graded, pure white beaches strewn with 400 species of shells; freshwater wetlands and mangrove swamps; and wildlife like gophers, tortoises, alligators, river otters and, at last count, 247 species of birds that frequent the island's nature preserves.
So while their improbable musculature arrangements will not defy the ravages of time for ever, for now the authority of Hollywood's commandOAPs will continue.
The next, he's critically ravaged for his Turandot at English National Opera.
Eighty percent of any penalties would be devoted to cleaning up the Gulf, which has been environmentally ravaged for decades.
The company did not expect its drug to reverse the disease -- patients' brains were too ravaged for that, said Richard Mohs, Lilly's team leader in Alzheimer's research.
The mountains overlooking the popular resort of Acapulco there have been ravaged for generations by violence between the army and groups suspected of being guerrillas.
Akron is a city ravaged for 30 years by factory closings, where employers' promises of pensions and lifelong health insurance disappeared down Interstate 77 with so many moving trucks.
It opens in Denmark, where King Hrothgar's splendid mead hall, Heorot, has been ravaged for 12 years by nightly visits from an evil monster, Grendel, who carries off Hrothgar's warriors and devours them.
As they begin their task, though, the marines have made clear that they intend to turn as much of the work as possible over to Afghans, a potential boon for an economy ravaged for years by civil war and international isolation.
Second, and more importantly, the citrus industry has been ravaged for over a decade by citrus greening, a bacterial disease that eventually kills infected trees.
