"wreak devastation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a powerful or catastrophic event or situation with far-reaching and destructive consequences. For example, "The earthquake and resulting tsunami wrought devastation across the entire coastline."
That wouldn't have mattered to their leader, George John Dasch, who hadn't intended to wreak devastation on Hitler's behalf anyway.
For days, government helicopters were scanning all approaches to the city, looking out for large trucks or petrol tankers that could wreak devastation if turned into bombs.
The Dolphins will look to wreak devastation on the Jets' quarterback in the fight for first place in the American Football Conference East.
Perhaps even more importantly, the worst impacts of many crises – especially those that destroy livelihoods and wreak devastation through famine and malnutrition – could be prevented or even avoided if local and national NGOs were better equipped.
These cuts, as councils' own bleak risk assessments admit, will wreak devastation on the lives of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people – a list that includes homeless people, care leavers, teenage parents, ex-offenders, victims of domestic violence, refugees, and people with mental illness or a learning disability.
By suggesting that reductions in council budgets will "wreak devastation on the lives of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people", Patrick Butler paints an apocalyptic picture of impending social disaster that I simply do not recognise (Savage cuts will leave people on the streets, 19 January).
It wreaked devastation around the countries' shared borders and entrenched Eritrea's militarisation.
As climate change wreaks devastation around the world, these numbers are sure to grow.
In 2013, for example, Typhoon Haiyan wreaked devastation, killing more than 6,300 people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage.
Godzilla wreaks devastation on Japanese cities - portrayed in such a way as explicitly to recall Hiroshima and the Allies' bombing of Tokyo.
Superintendent Rob Revill of the Safer Transport Command said: "Every road death is a needless tragedy that wreaks devastation on the victim's friends and family.
