Sentence examples for was being devastated from inspiring English sources

Bermuda was being devastated by a yellow fever epidemic, and Dr. Blackburn said he practiced medicine in New Orleans and had a special knowledge of the disease.

ABC No Rio has been around even longer -- 22 years -- and to get an idea of what "alternative space" once meant in a Lower East Side context, consider its early history, which dates from a time when the neighborhood was being devastated by poverty, drugs and real estate speculation.

As the human race in London's world was dying, the earth was being devastated by fires and conflagrations: "The smoke of the burning filled the heavens, so that the midday was as a gloomy twilight, and, in the shifts of wind, sometimes the sun shone through dimly, a dull red orb.

Now for the first time cities were being devastated and many civilians killed.

"The Eritreans, who are being devastated by the war, need to lie to boost their morale".

Michelle Lerner Flanders, N.J., Dec. 11, 2007 • To the Editor: The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance is being devastated by a brain drain.

Palmer said: "Our lives are being devastated by the billion pound cuts to essential services that we all depend on.

This week Qiu Baixing, a deputy minister of construction, said historical architecture and cultural sites were being "devastated" by rapid urban construction.

"Beech trees are presently being attacked by beech bark disease complex, the hemlocks are being devastated by the woolley adelgid," he said.

We're aware that as we sit here surveying the horizon, the east coast of the US is being devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

He added that local shops in Calais and the regional economy were being "devastated" and that there "had to be a solution".