Sentence examples for to devastate from inspiring English sources

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to devastate

verb

To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

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But the mining communities they managed to devastate between them all remain devastated.

It used to devastate me.

Happily, swine flu failed to devastate.

Poverty cannot continue to devastate communities.

It has the potential to devastate small businesses".

"We are about to devastate the future of this country.

Unlike Joyce, Woolf didn't wish to devastate her readers.

They now merely help to devastate Iraq's economy and bolster its cruel dictatorship.

The "blockbuster" was the name invented for a bomb intended to devastate targets.

Unrelenting violence and warfare as well as drought, flooding, and famine continued to devastate Somalia.

Then came the famine that began to devastate the Shaabab-dominated southern part of Somalia.

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