Sentence examples for was being ravaged from inspiring English sources

They also saw how the music industry was being ravaged by similar forces.

The newspaper quoted excerpts of her testimony in which she described how in April 2005, her health had deteriorated, and she was being "ravaged by the disease week after week".

A book of Mr. Lopez's drawings and Polaroids that Mr. Wilcox saw as a teenager ignited his desire to be in New York, but by the time he arrived, the scene that attracted him was being ravaged by AIDS, which took Mr. Lopez's life in 1987, at the age of 44.

He stood on a hillside above a thousand Sierra Leonean troops, whose country was being ravaged by a civil war of staggering brutality, with villagers locked into huts and burned alive, with child soldiers hacking off the hands of civilians, then letting them live as the ultimate message of terror.

The developing world was being ravaged by AIDS, and new medical understanding and cures were in demand.

The person whose crop was being ravaged wasn't upset, but townspeople took up the cause, criticizing the transgressor until the man offered his pig to the victim to mitigate the damage not just to the crop but to his own reputation.

"Some neighborhoods are being ravaged by foreclosures.

But we were being ravaged inside with our emotions.

But when I graduated in 2009, the investment banks were being ravaged by recession.

The British tree is being ravaged as never before, it would seem.

The tortoise befriends an elderly man whose garden is being ravaged by wild creatures.