devastated
Example Sentences
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Now CEO of Elanco Animal Health, Simmons said his family’s upstate New York grape farm had been devastated by a hailstorm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
At the Kfar Aza kibbutz, which was also devastated by the attack, mourners sat in silence in assembled chairs as they watched the raising of an Israeli flag.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
A heated debate divides the kibbutzim that Hamas devastated three years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Though the scandal devastated the NOS community and made for lurid headlines in the country's newspapers, for some it had not come out of the blue.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Mother began to doubt whether she would ever midwife again, and while she was saddened by this, Dad was devastated.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
