Sentence examples for started to ravage from inspiring English sources

Around 2002, reproduction rates began to decline even before polar bears, marooned on the island by retreating ice, started to ravage the nests.

For decades beginning in the 1940s, the region was ravaged by war; archaeologists started to build on her work only in the '90s.

But in the war ravaged eastern city of Goma, people started to celebrate as soon as the results were announced on national TV and radio.

However, the ravages of pursuing such a flawed policy have started to arrive.

How the ad will play in Michigan, a state where the ravages of the recession are evident but signs of a turnaround have started to emerge, is unclear.

The shutdown sent a shiver through the market for bonds backed by credit-card debt, which is only now starting to recover from the ravaging securitised assets took last year.The rise in unemployment which card defaults track and may now be exceeding, given the recession's severity has spattered a once-profitable business with red ink (see chart).

Although the precise mechanisms involved are still poorly understood, scientists are now starting to unravel the molecular ravages caused by genotoxicants [ EHP 114:1703–1712; Kisby et al.].

The term pandemic really came into its own with the 1918 Spanish flu, which probably started in the United States and went on to ravage Europe, then at war, as well as Africa and India.

I am going to be starting my hormone therapy in a few weeks, and finally starting to undo some of the damage testosterone has ravaged on my body for 30 years.

AIDS began to ravage Malawi, along with the rest of southern Africa, starting in the 1980s and 1990s.

What starts out as an honourable, even heroic quest unspools into a feverish dream: as the soul-altering ravages of war take their toll on Ash, her reliability as a narrator starts to slip.