devastate

Example Sentences

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One father, David from London, whose wife was retraining to be an occupational therapist, told the BBC last year that he was devastated after realising they didn't qualify because she wasn't earning at the time.

From BBC

And more recently, Vietnam has been experiencing devastating floods, which mobilized Tran, who spoke to me from Haiphong during a break from his advocacy work.

From Salon

Climate scientists try to explain why global heating is so devastating and why it will get worse from here, but even they struggle to fully grasp something so complex.

From Salon

According to long-standing textbook explanations, this evolutionary shift occurred after the most devastating extinction event in Earth History, which happened about 252 million years ago.

From Science Daily

A mother whose home was devastated when a toy car battery started a fire on Christmas Day has said she is "not sure what I've got left".

From BBC