Sentence examples for swath of devastation from inspiring English sources

Charleston, also in ruins because of Union bombardment, ultimately fell after Gen. William T. Sherman cut a swath of devastation through the South.

The eruption left a swath of devastation covering more than 200 square miles; the images of flattened forests that were so stunning in 1980 are just as startling today.

One was that the horrific fertilizer plant explosion in West, Tex., which caused at least 14 deaths and left a wide swath of devastation, was so powerful that the United States Geological Survey registered it as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake.

Despite the large swath of devastation, only three people were killed due to the extensive precautionary measures taken before the storm.

Midwest states were bracing Friday for another round of strong thunderstorms and damaging tornadoes, continuing a week of severe weather that has left a large swath of devastation in its wake.

Even now, they live amid swaths of utter devastation.

It tells nothing of how the war brought chaos and devastation to a great swath of Africa, from Kenya down to Mozambique.

Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) produced throughout the 2010 eruption were unusually destructive, causing near complete devastation across a 22 km2 swath of the densely populated southern flanks and casualties to the end of their runout at 15.5 km from the volcano.

Witnesses described scenes of devastation.

Unhappily, it brought the seeds of devastation.

It was a campaign of devastation.