Sentence examples for that were devastated from inspiring English sources

I've come to know families that were devastated by a food-borne illness.

Many select towns on Japan's north-eastern coast that were devastated by the tsunami of March 2011.

"It's part of a process by which households that were devastated are now improving their balance sheets," Mr. Sinai said.

Fueled largely by immigrant-buyer interest, "the neighborhoods that were devastated in the 70's are coming back," he said.

Lady Ashton's convoy drove without stopping through areas of northern Gaza that were devastated during the three-week war.

"This is a bare-bones request," said Representative Michael G. Grimm, a Republican whose district includes areas on Staten Island that were devastated by the storm.

— the same Biloxi that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Suddenly, at 45, he found himself running a firm that was devastated.

Ocotillo, a town that was devastated during Hurricane Kathleen in 1976, was flooded again.

An island population that was devastated by rats recovered numerically following rat extermination.

We must remember that behind every number there is a face of a child and a family that is devastated.