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How to use devastate in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word devastate? Here are some examples.

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Opening up parts of Queensland's Cape York to mining could devastate the famous Quinkan rock art.
Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
Well aware that North Korean missiles can devastate its cities, the Japanese are desperate for both a peaceful solution and American support.
Just five kilograms of plutonium, in the wrong hands, could devastate a city.
Dismantle, annihilate and devastate the whole swelling, putrescent edifice of surfing once and for all.
In 1908 the English novelist H. G. Wells could imagine an armada of German dirigibles crossing the Atlantic to devastate New York City.
They do not need to hit the center of the target to devastate conventionally armed ground forces.
These fishing vessels, having exhausted their own stocks, are allowed to devastate the fishing grounds around our shores.
Viticulture flourished despite the frequent civil wars, which were on too small a scale to devastate the Tuscan countryside.
Japhet hit northern Mozambique last week and is the second cyclone to devastate the southern African country this year.
All this can devastate lives, destroy relationships, disrupt work, cloud effective thinking, and affect physical health and ruin futures.
A villager has voiced an emotional plea to stop a proposed road scheme, which he says will devastate his wife's business.
Hurricanes also commonly devastate populations of nectarivorous birds, probably because these birds are left with few nectar or fruit resources.
This would collapse the price of sugar beet and devastate the income of beet growers.
One of their major jobs was to hunt wild pigs that could devastate the breeding colonies when they were nesting.
Holding open the prospect of incestuous marriage would devastate family life by, effectively, legitimizing sexual predation within it.
Imprisoning a mother from another country may also devastate her family at home.
But critics said it was a last-ditch effort by Mahuad to stay in power, and that abandoning the sucre would devastate many Ecuadoreans' sucre-based savings.
The onset of peak oil will devastate the suburban American way of life.
Scale insects enjoy perennial plants and can devastate nut and fruit trees, greenhouse plants, forest vegetation, woody ornamentals, and house plants.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.
That stream when it overfloods will devastate its borders and destroy its bridges.
He grants us lands for pastures and abodes To devastate them by his iron roads.
The gale hurried on to devastate fresh fields and pastures new.
Of what use to him would it be to devastate this little realm?
In a single night they devastate a field of cotton, manioc, or sugar-cane.
I am alluding now to troubles which are subtle often to the extent of not being understood by the very hearts they devastate or uplift.
This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within fifteen miles of Gimmerton.
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